Scout AI Raises $100M to Build ‘AI Brain' for Autonomous Warfare

AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should know something? Send it to tina.nguyen+tips@theverge.com. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion o … Read the full story at The Verge.

President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI models before they become available to the public, a significant shift from his previously laissez-faire approach to the AI industry. In the most recent story about White House AI model vetting, the debate boils down to whether the government should intervene before frontier systems with coding or cyber capabilities get distributed to the public. That’s a not a subtle change. That is Washington asking whether the arms race to AI has evolved to the stage where ‘ship it and see […]

The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.

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Insider Brief Defense AI startup Scout AI has raised $100 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to develop a foundation model for autonomous military operations. The round was co-led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, with participation from Decisive Point, Booz Allen Ventures, BVVC, Neman Ventures, Evolution VC Partners, Heraclitus Capital Management, Sigmas Group, […]

We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.

Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House