*Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft
*
/Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI
services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s
staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint
investigation reveals./
Yuval Abraham
January 23, 2025
Microsoft has a “footprint in all major military infrastructures” in
Israel, and sales of the company’s cloud and artificial intelligence
services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since the beginning of its
onslaught on Gaza, according to leaked commercial records from Israel’s
Defense Ministry and files from Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary.
The documents reveal that dozens of units in the Israeli army have
purchased services from Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, in
recent months — including units in the air, ground, and naval forces, as
well as the elite intelligence squad, Unit 8200. Microsoft has also
provided the military with extensive access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 language
model, the engine behind ChatGPT, thanks to the close partnership
between the two companies.
These revelations are the product of an investigation by +972 Magazine
and Local Call in collaboration with The Guardian. It is based in part
on documents obtained by Drop Site News, which has published its own
story. The investigation shows how the Israeli army deepened its
reliance on civilian tech giants after October 7, and comes amid growing
protests by cloud company employees who fear that the technology they
developed has helped Israel commit war crimes.
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https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-azure-openai-israeli-army-cloud/
