The Pentagon Just Signed AI Deals With 8 Tech Giants — And Anthropic Wasn't Invited
The U.S. military just took its biggest step toward becoming an “AI-first fighting force.” On May 1st, the Department of Defense announced agreements with eight AI companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle — to deploy frontier AI models on the Pentagon’s most sensitive classified networks. But the real headline? The company that’s not on the list: Anthropic. What Actually Happened The agreements give all eight companies access to deploy AI on the Pentagon’s Impact Level 6 and IL7 network environments — the most sensitive classified systems where war plans get made and intelligence gets analyzed. ...