Pentagon Strikes Classified-Network AI Deals with Seven Tech Firms — Anthropic Excluded

Summary

The Pentagon has reached deals with seven technology providers — Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX — to use their AI models inside classified computer networks. Anthropic was notably absent from the list after its public dispute and legal fight with the Trump administration over the ethics and safety of AI use in war and intelligence applications. The exclusion comes in the same week Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in commercial business-customer share, h