News Analysis Major U.S. firms, including Intel and Sequoia Capital, have maintained financial and research ties with a Chinese company known to provide artificial intelligence to Beijing’s military, according to a new report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University. 4Paradigm, a major enterprise AI company headquartered in Beijing, was awarded a contract to provide China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Its contract was for a “battalion and company command decision-making model and human-machine teaming software,” according to the report, which did not specify the date of the contact. Meanwhile, 4Paradigm has also been working with Western partners on research projects that could be leveraged for its AI work for the military. “As of January 2021, the company was cooperating on Very Large Database research with Intel and the National University of Singapore,” the report said, referring to research …