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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed a new strategy to accelerate the Pentagon’s adoption of artificial intelligence, detailing an aim to become an “AI-first” military. A new memo from Hegseth released on Monday evening outlines a slew of AI technology projects with “aggressive timelines” and plans to “invest heavily” in bolstering access to compute infrastructure, to include potentially building data centers on military installations. “This strategy will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus on investments, and demonstrate the execution approach…
