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Google is taking a pass at a potential $10 billion contract.
The tech giant has made the decision to sit out of the the Pentagon’s competition for a possible $10 billion cloud-computing project.
The Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, is a project looking to find a solution for huge transfers of data from the Defense Department to military officials in order to make faster military decisions wherever in the world these officials may be.
Google cited its AI principles, which were published back in June, as the reason for dropping out of the bidding process. Read more…
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