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Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Publisher description: Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
MIT Technology Review | Sep 4, 2026 | Cory Alpert
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This constantly changing terrain is what makes drone data valuable far beyond the battlefield. Bad actors could acquire the data, but purchase controls already mitigate that risk. Training data creates a new tracing problem, though. Battlefield data should not be treated as ordinary commercial material. Its Avengers Labs program allows companies to train models on battlefield data without giving them direct access to sensitive databases.
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