Apple has canceled its contract with Project Maven, a Pentagon project to use artificial intelligence to analyze military drone photos, (according to The Information (a subscription is required to read the entire article).
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Project Maven is an effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to use artificial lintelligence (AI) software to analyze imagery captured by military drones. Apple recently acquired a company called Xnor.ai for $200 million and decided to terminate its work on/with the project.
Xnor.ai a Seattle startup specializing in low-power, edge-based AI tools. Its AI-enabled image recognition tools could become standard features in future iPhones and webcams, according to GeekWire.