On April 26, 2023, the Ukrainian government launched Brave1, a state-backed coordination platform designed to accelerate development of dual-use military and surveillance technologies. Founded by a coalition including the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Defence, General Staff of the …
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On April 22, 2023, Palantir Technologies announced a partnership with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office to process massive volumes of war crimes evidence using artificial intelligence and data analytics. At the time of the announcement, Ukraine had registered more than 78,000 alleged …
On June 1, 2022, Palantir CEO Alex Karp crossed the border from Poland into Ukraine and met President Volodymyr Zelensky in the presidential palace bunker, becoming the first major Western tech CEO to visit since Russia’s February invasion. Karp told Zelensky they could work together “in …
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Ukraine’s defense ministry began using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology in early March 2022, just weeks after Russia’s invasion, after CEO Hoan Ton-That offered free access to the company’s database of over 10 billion photos. Ton-That first demonstrated the tool …
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