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25 Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic

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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · today 17:00 EDT

Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic

The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies -- SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS -- to deploy their tools on classified Defense Department networks. The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated int

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