Scout

Scout is a technology scouting initiative by the Pentagon and CIA's In-Q-Tel, aimed at identifying and acquiring innovative technologies. It is also the act of searching for talent, such as a worker scouted for modelling, or for business opportunities, like companies scouting for startups to acquire or locations for data centres.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to a high-profile partnership between the Pentagon and the CIA's venture capital arm for technology scouting.

Latest on Scout

• Pentagon partners with CIA’s In-Q-Tel for ‘technology scouting’
• Chinese rubbish station worker scouted for striking looks refuses full-time modelling
• Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire
• Tech companies are scouting Argentine Patagonia for AI data centres, Reuters reports
• Ecopetrol scouts for new CEO
• Daniel Siad, French modelling scout with links to Epstein found dead
• its AI Excel agent for financial modeling
• Microsoft launches Scout AI assistant to automate workplace tasks

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