US EditionOpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump
OpenAI agreed to Pentagon terms banning domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, marking a strategic win after Anthropic was banned as a supply-chain risk.
- Late on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an agreement to deploy OpenAI's AI models on the Pentagon's classified network, hours after President Donald Trump ordered agencies to stop using Anthropic tools.
- After weeks of tense negotiations, Anthropic refused Pentagon demands to remove safeguards barring domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, and Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, designated Anthropic a supply‑chain risk.
- Sam Altman noted OpenAI will deploy engineers and technical safeguards, and the DoD agreed to safety principles banning domestic mass surveillance and requiring human responsibility for use of force.
- Anthropic vowed to challenge the Pentagon's designation in court and said it will seek legal recourse, with a $200 million contract and a six‑month transition window for federal agencies.
- This development signals broader national‑security implications for AI as U.S. federal procurement authorities apply supply‑chain restrictions to a U.S. AI developer, a shift previously used under Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act for foreign telecoms.
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OpenAI gives Pentagon AI model access after Anthropic dustup
By Rachel Metz and Maggie Eastland, Bloomberg News OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department’s classified network after rival Anthropic PBC saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said late Friday that he’d reached an agreement with the department that reflects the company’s principles on proh…
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OpenAI said on Saturday, February 28, that the agreement it struck a day ago with the Pentagon to deploy technology on the US defense department’s classified network includes additional safeguards to protect its use cases. US President Donald Trump on Friday directed the government to stop working with Anthropic, and the Pentagon said it would declare the startup a supply-chain risk, dealing a major blow to the artificial intelligence lab after …
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