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May 3, 2026
Pentagon strikes deals with top AI companies
The Pentagon has said it has reached deals with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle to use their AI for its classified networks
TL;DR
- The Pentagon has finalized deals with leading AI companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle.
- These agreements will integrate advanced AI into classified networks to improve military operations, data synthesis, and decision-making.
- The US Navy awarded Domino Data Lab a $100 million contract for AI to combat Iranian mines.
- Anthropic was excluded from deals after refusing to relax AI safeguards, leading to the Pentagon designating it a 'supply-chain risk'.
- US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth criticized Anthropic's CEO and compared their stance to a defense contractor dictating targets.
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