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A large-scale conflict has erupted in the United States over the use of artificial intelligence in the defense sector. At the center are OpenAI, Anthropic, their flagship models ChatGPT and Claude, as well as the United States Department of Defense. The story has already gone beyond the corporate dispute — it is affecting the AI ​​market, federal contracts, and the public debate about the limits of military applications of artificial intelligence.

American academic standards, industry-based faculty, international scholars, and a vibrant IT community — this is what a master’s degree for engineers at American University Kyiv looks like today. Serhiy Tytenko, Deputy Dean of EPAM School of Digital Technologies and Associate Professor at American University Kyiv, talks about the philosophy of the Master of Software Engineering program and its real benefits.

At work, we have long learned to count almost everything: hours, KPIs, deadlines, burn rate, velocity. And we also seriously talk about productivity, mental health, burnout. But at the same time, physical condition often remains a «side effect» of work, not a part of it. It is generally customary to optimize processes, but the body remains out of sight as a resource, although it directly affects cognitive and creative workload. And both the person himself and the business as a whole, for which he works, pay for this.

At the end of 2023, HR in the IT sphere Anastasia Sokhatska left her position at SoftServe to establish her own charitable foundation to help the military. 9 years of her IT career were left behind, and new, previously unknown, challenges arose ahead of her. In early 2026, 2.5 years after the launch of the 1991 Charity Fund, the fund closes tens of millions of dollars in funds, providing defenders with transportation, drones, NRCs, and other equipment, as well as supporting «drone workshops» at brigades and helping veterans.