Pentagon inks deals with AI giants, but not Anthropic

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On May 1, 2026, the US Department of Defense signed agreements with seven AI firms—OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, SpaceX, and Reflection—to deploy their systems on classified Pentagon networks (Impact Levels 6 and 7) for military operations. Anthropic was excluded due to Pentagon designation as a supply-chain risk, though CEO Dario Amodei met White House officials to discuss the company's Mythos AI model, and President Trump indicated potential reversal of the blacklisting.

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The pacts enable OpenAI, Google and SpaceX to bring top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) models onto the US military’s secure classified networks.

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