Google and Pentagon in talks to run custom AI chips inside classified environments — Google pushes for tight controls for TPUs surrounding use for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons

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Google is reportedly negotiating with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy Gemini in classified settings, with the talks covering the addition of GPU racks to Google Distributed Cloud and a first-time deployment of Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) inside accredited classified environments, according to a report published today by The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

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