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🛡️ Microsoft’s China Risk, Pentagon AI Deals, Apple-Nvidia Link · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: Joel 15th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to
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  supercharge your
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  SPEAKER_00: mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  a little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense
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  Department to Chinese
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  SPEAKER_00: hackers.
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  A little-known Microsoft support model uses overseas engineers
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  and U.S.-based
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  SPEAKER_00: escorts to manage Pentagon cloud systems,
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  SPEAKER_00: raising quiet but serious cybersecurity concerns.
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  SPEAKER_00: U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Defense Department awards contracts to Google, Musk's XAI.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Pentagon is partnering with Google,
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  SPEAKER_00: OpenAI,
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthropic,
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  and XAI to develop advanced AI systems aimed at strengthening
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  national security.
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  Apple's silicon machine learning code may become more easily
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  portable to NVIDIA hardware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple is adding CUDA export support to its MLX framework,
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  SPEAKER_00: letting developers build ML code on Macs and run it on NVIDIA GPUs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google finds a crack in Amazon's cloud dominance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google Cloud is quietly winning over more enterprise clients,
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  signaling a shift in how companies are approaching their cloud
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  infrastructure
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  SPEAKER_00: choices.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uber taps China's Baidu for robo-taxis in Asia, Middle East.
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  Uber will soon offer Baidu's self-driving cars in parts of Asia
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  and the Middle
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  SPEAKER_00: East,
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  SPEAKER_00: with plans to expand to Europe and Oceania in the coming years.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.