The Pentagon's innovation arm has awarded Scale AI a prototype contract for Thunderforge -- an initiative aimed at integrating artificial intelligence into military planning and wargaming, with plans for initial use by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and U.S. European Command. Anduril and Microsoft will work with Scale AI to enable Thunderforge -- with Anduril bringing its Lattice software platform and Microsoft bringing its large-language models to the table, according to an announcement from the Defense Innovation Unit. “Team Thunderforge,” DIU said,...