🤖 Meta Expands AI Access to U.S. Defense

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1. 🤖 Meta Expands AI Access to U.S. Defense Contractors

2. 📣 Disney Launches New Unit to Drive AI and Mixed Reality Innovations

3. 📈 AI-supported marketing: Predictive, effective, and efficient

4. 🤯  Quick Takes

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Meta Expands AI Access to U.S. Defense Contractors

Meta has announced a significant move, allowing U.S. defense contractors and government agencies to utilize its advanced AI models, Llama, in a bid to bolster military and national security applications.

Key Points:

• Meta’s Llama models are now accessible to over a dozen U.S. defense agencies and contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Palantir.

• Besides the U.S., Meta is extending Llama access to defense contractors in allied countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, within the framework of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.

• Llama’s capabilities could aid in defense tasks like data synthesis, cyber defense, and monitoring financial flows linked to terrorism, showcasing the versatility of large language models in security settings.

• By making Llama available to the U.S. public sector, Meta aims to counterbalance AI advancements from adversarial nations and reinforce its technology’s presence in national security.

Meta's decision underscores a dual aim: to reinforce democratic values through U.S.-aligned AI use and to position Llama as a leading platform in both private and government sectors globally.

Disney Launches New Unit to Drive AI and Mixed Reality Innovations

Walt Disney has established the Office of Technology Enablement, a new division designed to align the company’s efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) and mixed reality across film, TV, and theme parks. Led by Jamie Voris, Disney’s former CTO of the film studio, this unit aims to harness AI and extended reality (XR) to enhance consumer experiences and support creative projects. According to Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman, this move reflects Disney’s commitment to exploring opportunities and mitigating risks in these rapidly advancing technologies. Rather than centralizing development, the unit will coordinate AI and XR initiatives company-wide, starting with a leadership team and plans to expand to about 100 employees.

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Quick Takes

• Claude 3.5 Haiku Debuts with Price Hike and Limitations: Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, avoided directly defining "plagiarism" amid ongoing lawsuits from publishers like Dow Jones and The New York Post, which accuse the startup of content misuse. Srinivas maintained that Perplexity cites its sources and argued for "universally distributed" facts, countering that publishers may want control over how facts are shared.

• Anduril Eyes Locations for Massive Arsenal-1 Manufacturing Plant: Defense tech firm Anduril is weighing Arizona, Texas, and Ohio as possible locations for its 5-million-square-foot Arsenal-1 facility, aiming to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems annually. With a recent $1.5 billion funding round, Anduril plans to invest heavily in the plant, which promises to employ thousands and redefine defense manufacturing with rapid, software-driven production.

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