Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs11m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'20m ago AI #185: Preference Cascade45m ago Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding48m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization49m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid49m ago Now everyone can put data to work49m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests55m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99956m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities1h ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware1h ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history2h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal2h ago

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs11m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'20m ago AI #185: Preference Cascade45m ago Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding48m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization49m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid49m ago Now everyone can put data to work49m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests55m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99956m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities1h ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware1h ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history2h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal2h ago

Business & Enterprise

The Rest of Big Tech Piles in to Take the Pentagon Deal That Anthropic Wouldn’t

GizmodoPublished May 1, 2026

Several major technology companies have entered the competition to secure a Pentagon contract that Anthropic declined. This move highlights growing interest from big tech in government AI projects. The deal involves providing AI capabilities to the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks
May 1· 2 sources
Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal
Apr 28· TechCrunch

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