Google, Microsoft Compete in Pentagon’s AI Cybersecurity Project

The US Defense Department is enlisting Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp., OpenAI Inc. and Anthropic in a two-year competition to use artificial intelligence to develop code for protecting government software from cyber attacks.

• Top prize winner gets $4 million
• Up to seven small businesses could receive as much as $1 million each in initial phase of competition
• Top five semi-finalists will win $2 million each
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to lead challenge
• NOTE: Amazon, Meta, Others to Unveil AI Safeguards Amid Biden Push

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