Pentagon Aligns With Eight AI Leaders to Arm Classified Networks

TL;DR
The Defense Department announced agreements with eight AI firms—SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle—to deploy their AI on the Pentagon's classified networks for lawful operational use, signaling a shift toward an AI-first military; Anthropic was excluded due to its refusal to grant unrestricted military access, amid ongoing debates over surveillance limits and autonomous weapons.
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