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Ex-investors in Apple's $200 million AI acquisition remain quiet over its rumoured military drone contracts

This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article,After acquiring AI startup Xnor.ai, Apple reportedly scrapped its involvement in the US military's controversial Project Maven, a US Department of Defence program that Google stopped working on last year.

Reports suggest Maven would give the US military the ability to track and spy on targets without any human involvement. Apple bought AI startup Xnor.ai for a reported $200 million last month. But the tech giant is said to have terminated the company's role in Project Maven, a highly controversial Pentagon scheme, shortly after,Project Maven is a military project focused on how machine learning can be used to help drones distinguish between people and objects. These drones could then autonomously track and spy on targets – without any human involvement – on the military's behalf.

 

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