AI firm Palantir locked in battle with Pentagon DIA over key intelligence deal: Details here

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• Artificial intelligence (AI) company Palantir is now fighting with the US Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for the right to bid on a contract to modernise its data analytics system.
• Axios reported the development on Thursday (local time), stating that the battle comes at a time when the AI company already has a significant presence at the Pentagon, which could eventually extend to an agency responsible for delivering foreign military intelligence aimed at helping prevent and win wars.
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• The artificial intelligence company argues that the DIA is wasting taxpayers' money and flouting the law by refusing to consider a commercial solution for its data analytics modernisation efforts.
• According to the report, the DIA launched MARS (Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System) eight years ago and has been developing it ever since to...