Overview
- The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge, reported ongoing talks to let the Defense Department run Gemini inside classified systems, and neither Alphabet nor the Pentagon has confirmed the discussions.
- An agreement under discussion could permit use of Google’s AI models for all lawful purposes within military missions.
- Google is pressing for contract language that blocks domestic mass surveillance and bars weapons that operate without human control.
- The proposed guardrails track terms OpenAI already negotiated after CEO Sam Altman urged the Pentagon to apply identical conditions across vendors.
- The talks follow Anthropic’s refusal to relax safety rules that led the Pentagon to label it a supply chain risk, signaling growing pressure on AI firms competing for federal work.