Meta announced a groundbreaking policy shift, making its open-source Llama AI models available to US government agencies and defense contractors. Partnering with companies like Accenture, AWS, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Scale AI, and others, Meta opened its technology for national …
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The Central Intelligence Agency awarded its Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract to five major technology companies—Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and IBM—on November 20, 2020. The multi-cloud contract, valued at tens of billions of dollars over a 15-year period, represents …
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IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson receives the Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star from Adolf Hitler in June 1937 while serving as President of the International Chamber of Commerce, becoming the first American honored by Hitler with this special award created to “honor foreign nationals who …
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