Roundup Hello, here's a short but sweet round up of news from the world of machine learning beyond what we have already covered on El Reg. Microsoft funded an AI startup that spies on Palestinians: Microsoft invested in AnyVision, a company that supports a secret Israeli military project that surveils Palestinians travelling within the West Bank. Palestinians living in the contentious region occupied by Israel can only travel via designated checkpoints. The Israeli government also tracks their movements using CCTV cameras as they walk throughout eastern Jerusalem. The military project, supposedly codenamed "Google Ayosh," was carried out to search for specific people by matching the faces spotted on the cameras to a known database, according to NBC News.

Roundup Hello, here's a short but sweet round up of news from the world of machine learning beyond what we have already covered on El Reg.