Your loss, DoD.
Posted on 05/01/2026 7:01:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Department of Defense on Friday confirmed new agreements with seven technology companies to deploy artificial intelligence tools across its classified networks, marking a broad expansion of its AI partnerships while excluding Anthropic from the program.
The companies selected—OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, Elon Musk’s xAI, and startup Reflection—will provide systems for what the Pentagon described as “lawful operational use.” Defense officials said the effort is aimed at building an “AI-first fighting force” and improving decision-making across military operations.
The move significantly widens the Pentagon’s vendor base. Until recently, Anthropic’s Claude model had been the only AI system operating inside the department’s classified environment. That relationship ended after the Trump administration labeled Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” effectively barring the company from Defense Department contracts.
The designation followed a dispute over how the military could use AI systems. Anthropic had pushed for guardrails around applications such as autonomous weapons and surveillance, while the administration sought broader authorization for “all lawful purposes.” Anthropic has challenged the decision in court, and a federal judge recently blocked part of the government’s effort to enforce the ban.
At the same time, discussions between the company and the White House have resumed in recent weeks, including a visit by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after the company introduced its Mythos cybersecurity tool.
For the Pentagon, the expanded group of vendors reflects a shift toward working with multiple AI providers inside sensitive systems. Several of the companies already maintain defense contracts, and the department said more than 1.3 million personnel have used its GenAI.mil platform to date.
The agreements also come as federal spending on artificial intelligence and cyber capabilities increases. A recent spending package allocated significant funding for these areas, intensifying competition among technology companies seeking government contracts.
By bringing multiple vendors into its classified networks, the Defense Department is widening access to commercial AI systems while continuing to reshape its approach to military technology adoption.
This analysis is based on reporting from CNN .
What is the Department of Defense? is that a Twitter group?
Anthropic should be viewed through very jaundiced eyes. As with their AI, truth telling by company execs is optional. If a convenient lie works better it will be convincingly deployed.
RE: What is the Department of Defense? is that a Twitter group?
It is very difficult by force of habit to refer to a Government Department that has been named such for nearly 80 years.
It’s very similar to the Gulf of America... people still refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico.
Your loss, DoD.
Liberal homos.
“You MUST buy my product (EV, vaccine, public school).”
“You must hire me (Union labor, DEI hire...).
Screw Anthropic.
They are the product/service provider and should not dictate what the customer gets.
The customer is the DOW and if Anthropic doesn’t want to deliver what the customer wants, they need to look for customers elsewhere, not try to FORCE themselves on the customer.
This is a perverse situation.
I went to this “Chat AI” site and see it’s an aggregator that utilizes “A I assisted journalism with RIGOROUS human editorial oversight to deliver accurate reporting! Of course I totally understand what your saying ...A I is nothing more than a search engine that scours a data base that can be manipulated by humans, so any information it puts out is susceptible to error as is anything human. God is the only omnipotent perfection.
The best thing the DoW could do is subsidize datacenter hardware costs for frontier model companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. The Chinese CCP is subsidizing Deepseek and Qwen, and all the hardware they run on in China, to outcompete US AI companies for global commercial users who don’t need the PhD math capabilities of our frontier models at 100x cheaper token costs. Their distilled models are pirated versions of Claude and OpenAI, “good enough” for most business applications.
They are doing to AI what they did to electronics, pharmaceuticals, textiles, steel, and a host of other industries that used to be in the US. They see AI as the ultimate tool for control, once we are dependent on their products.
Media: We only want to use legal terms according to the law!
Legal term: illegal alien
Media: migrant
Just what we need; more deception. One of these days, many will be wishing they had not employed deception. There seems to be so much of it nowadays that it is hard to tell where it ends & the the truth begins.
It does what humans tell it to do.
All an LLM does is take input and give out probabilities of what the next token will be, based on how it was trained.
And if you specify, it won’t even necessarily choose the most probable token.
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