UK, US announce initial PETs contest winners

The U.K. and U.S. governments jointly announced initial winners in the U.S.-U.K. prize challenges on privacy-enhancing technologies. Twelve of 76 entries moved out of Phase I of the contest with their "state-of-the-art approaches to privacy-preserving federated learning." The remaining entrants will take part in Phase II of the competition, which tasks entrants with building their proposed technologies with government and regulator engagement.