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A TECH consultancy, which boasts major public contracts and has carried out tests for the government’s AI Safety Institute since 2023, is developing AI for military drones, it emerged today.
Faculty AI has at least £26.6 million worth of government contracts including with the NHS, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to official disclosures.
But announcing a partnership with the London-based firm, the British start-up Hadean revealed that the two companies are working together on “subject identification, tracking object movement and exploring autonomous swarming development, deployment and operations.”
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