Pentagon Aligns With Eight AI Leaders to Arm Classified Networks
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.
