UK, Ukraine sign AI defence partnership linked to battlefield technology

LONDON, Aug 24 : Britain said on Monday it had signed a partnership with Ukraine to jointly develop artificial intelligence tools for defence and security, giving British researchers access to a Ukrainian battlefield data platform used to train military AI systems.Prime Minister Andy Burnham and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed the agreement in Kyiv, making Britain the first international partner to access Ukraine's Avengers AI Labs, a government statement said.Avengers Labs was built around an annotated dataset of 5 million battlefield images, Ukraine's Defence Ministry said earlier in August, largely drawn from the military's DELTA combat system – a domestically developed battlefield management and situational-awareness system.The platform uses data collected from cameras and sensors