BP extends use of AI in five-year deal with spy tech firm Palantir

Oil and gas company to use artificial intelligence to speed up decision-making by engineers

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The oil and gas supermajor BP is to use artificial intelligence to speed up the decision-making of its engineers, after signing a five-year deal with the US spy technology company Palantir.

The British company plans to use large language models to automatically analyse data from its sites and produce advice to help humans come to conclusions.