Amazon is set to invest up to $50bn to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers, in one of the largest cloud infrastructure commitments targeted at the public sector. The e-commerce giant announced the investment on Monday. One gigawatt of computing power is roughly enough to power about 750,000 US households on average. "This investment removes the technology barriers that have held the government back", Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman said. AWS is already a major cloud provider to the US government, serving more than 11,000 government agencies.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 8, 2020 -- Tachyum Inc.announced it is opening a business unit to serve U.S., EU and NATO member government customers of its Prodigy Universal Processor for demanding HPC, artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Although the company's primary market is hyperscale data centers, Tachyum's CEO Dr. Rado Danilak recognized that government agencies – notably military and intelligence – are early adopters of Prodigy. Its ultra-low-power, ultra-high-performance enables and vastly improves next-generation defense systems such as unmanned aircraft and underwater systems, cybersecurity, communications, analytics, and more. Prodigy's "unique attributes set the conditions to create a computing architecture fully aligned with the operational and strategic imperatives of our national strategy," said retired Army Lieutenant General Richard Zahner. He is a career electronic intelligence specialist who headed signals intelligence at the National Security Agency (NSA) and ended his career as Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence.

CalypsoAI, the leader in validation, security and monitoring for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), announced today the closing of its $13 million Series A fundraising. Paladin Capital Group led the round, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, 8VC, Frontline Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Manta Ray Ventures, Pallas Ventures and other financial and strategic investors. The funding will allow CalypsoAI to expand globally, increase adoption among enterprises, and progress with innovation. CalypsoAI's solutions address one of the most important challenges of the digital age: securing the automated future. Artificial intelligence and machine learning have expanded from board room presentations into practical applications.

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "5G Business Services Market by Enterprise, Industrial, and Government Segment Applications, Services, and Solutions 2019-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report evaluates the 5G B2B market solutions for enterprise, industrial, and government users. It addresses specific opportunities such as 5G support of private wireless networks, WAN connectivity, and fixed wireless access for business. It also provides analysis for specific applications such as autonomous vehicles, telepresence, tele-robotics, video-related services, public safety and more. The report provides forecasts for both 5G revenue as well as user projections from 2019 to 2024.

Analytics company Crimson Hexagon says Facebook has reinstated its data access to Facebook and Instagram. That access was suspended last month, with Facebook saying it was investigating whether the company had violated any of its data use policies. In this case, the issue appears to be related to some of Crimson Hexagon's contracts with the U.S. government, with Facebook saying it wasn't aware of those contracts when contacted by The Wall Street Journal. What followed, according to a blog post by Crimson Hexagon Dan Shore, was "several weeks of constructive discussion and information exchange." It seems that Facebook was satisfied with what it learned and ended Crimson Hexagon's suspension. Shore said that government customers make up less than 5 percent of the company's business, adding, "To our knowledge, no government customer has used the Crimson Hexagon platform for surveillance of any individual or group."

If you're nervous about the privacy implications of Amazon's camera technology, there might be a good reason for it. The ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups are calling on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to stop offering Rekognition facial detection system to government customers after learning that the company is actively helping law enforcement implement the potentially invasive technology. Police in multiple regions have partnered with Amazon on surveillance projects, including an Orlando proof-of-concept that lets Amazon search for "people of interest" through city cameras as well a Washington County, Oregon initiative that lets officers scan people to see if they turn up in a mugshot database. The ACLU also learned that Amazon provided Washington County a roadmap under a non-disclosure agreement, and offered to link the county to other government customers interested in Rekognition, such as a body camera manufacturer. That's particularly problematic when facial recognition on body cameras is illegal in Oregon.