DOD expands classified AI work with eight companies, excluding Anthropic
The Pentagon signed classified AI capability agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle, but pointedly excluded Anthropic following a public dispute over AI safety in warfare. The exclusion is the most concrete signal yet that Anthropic's safety-first posture carries commercial cost in the defense market.
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