The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Leidos a five-year, $95 million contract to bring AI automation and cloud tools to ELMS, the Pentagon system tracking more than 80 million items of government property. Leidos has supported the system for over 21 years.
In a Latent Space interview, Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson discusses elastic GPUs, the growth of sandboxes and the economics of cloud infrastructure for AI agents.
A session from MIT Technology Review's EmTech Future conference looks at what it takes to scale AI in a heavily regulated sector. It argues that data, engineering, platforms, operating models and governance have to work together.
SpaceX launched the Super Intelligence Partner Network for companies building on or deploying Grok, with Apollo, Nvidia, Snowflake, Databricks, Bain and over 130 firms joining early. It follows a quarter in which SpaceX's AI unit turned a profit, mostly from renting out compute.
IBM argues that enterprise AI agents need governed, up-to-date context drawn from the systems they work across. Its approach ties that data foundation to the broader task of putting AI into production.
Creative director Victoria McClune has followed digital technology from early interactive iPad books to today's AI systems. At Current Futures, her focus on how people engage with technology shapes her critique of how the AI industry sees its users.