Ukraine To Share Wartime Combat Data With Allies To Help Train AI (reuters.com)
(Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:44AM (msmash)
from the how-about-that dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/20/1546245/ukraine-to-share-wartime-combat-data-with-allies-to-help-train-ai
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-share-wartime-combat-data-with-allies-help-train-ai-2026-01-20/
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Ukraine will establish a system allowing its allies to [1]train their AI models on Kyiv's valuable combat data collected throughout the nearly four-year war with Russia, newly appointed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said. Fedorov -- a former digitalisation minister who last week took up the post to drive reforms across Ukraine's vast defence ministry and armed forces -- has described Kyiv's wartime data trove as one of its "cards" in negotiations with other nations.
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> Since Russia's invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has gathered extensive battlefield information, including systematically logged combat statistics and millions of hours of drone footage captured from above. Such data is important for training AI models, which require large volumes of real-world information to identify patterns and predict how people or objects might act in various situations.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-share-wartime-combat-data-with-allies-help-train-ai-2026-01-20/
> Ukraine will establish a system allowing its allies to [1]train their AI models on Kyiv's valuable combat data collected throughout the nearly four-year war with Russia, newly appointed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has said. Fedorov -- a former digitalisation minister who last week took up the post to drive reforms across Ukraine's vast defence ministry and armed forces -- has described Kyiv's wartime data trove as one of its "cards" in negotiations with other nations.
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> Since Russia's invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has gathered extensive battlefield information, including systematically logged combat statistics and millions of hours of drone footage captured from above. Such data is important for training AI models, which require large volumes of real-world information to identify patterns and predict how people or objects might act in various situations.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-share-wartime-combat-data-with-allies-help-train-ai-2026-01-20/
Ukraine is number one! (Score:2)
by mspohr ( 589790 )
It looks like Ukraine has become the world leader in AI/Robotic/Drone warfare technology.
They didn't ask for this role and would surely have like to have avoided it but since they're in this mess, they seem to be making the best of it.
Good for those allies (Score:2)
I am sure they will take advantage of this new information for the [1]future war in Greenland. [mediaite.com]
Jesus fuckin' Christ how stupid is everything. "Everybody is 12" theory going strong.
[1] https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-taunts-allies-with-leaked-texts-memes-and-trash-talk-in-late-night-greenland-blitz/
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This info will be for targeting Russian hardware. For targeting NATO hardware they'll have to ask the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans or anyone else that Putin has given the data to.
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It's not stupid to the average American voter who cares more about their own immediate welfare than what's going on in the larger world. The world order is just reverting to the way it was prior to WWII. Instead of super-powers you have large regional hegemons that control and dominate their own neighborhoods and clash with the larger powers at the fringes. Globalization, multi-lateralism (the UN), and trade were all products of the post-WWII order that came out of the Bretton Woods agreements, and later
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I wouldn't exactly call the post-WWII system "less stupid" than what came before or after. Looking at the world we live in eighty years later I'd say Neoliberalism appears to be one of the stupidest systems ever invented.
"I know, let's send all our manufacturing jobs to another country and then build an economy around selling houses to each other at prices kids can't afford."
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> But this cost money for the US to bankroll all these systems
People unable to realize this is true and all we got for that money was becoming the wealthiest country in the history of history, global military supremacy and status as the global hegemon with outsized influence all trade and financial sectors. What a raw deal!
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And a hollowed-out economy, $38,000,000,000,000 in debt, unaffordable housing, etc, etc, etc.
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Everything I stated is true so if we have those problems it's not a lack of money, it's what we choose to do with our wealth.
So anyway, who did you vote for?
Re: Good for those allies (Score:2)
Americans who got tired of being in charge of the world and of always having the upper game economically, you mean? What we got for our expenditures was unparalleled power and we're giving that up willfully right now because Putin paid Trump to trick us into it. How fucking spectacularly idiotic.