Overview
- An agreement announced Friday brings OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, SpaceX and Reflection onto the Pentagon’s Impact Level 6 and 7 systems for lawful operational use.
- Anthropic remains out after the Defense Department labeled it a supply‑chain risk following a dispute over military uses such as mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
- Officials said the multi‑vendor approach aims to avoid vendor lock and expand on GenAI.mil, the internal platform that more than 1.3 million personnel used in five months to shrink some tasks from months to days.
- The Pentagon confirmed Google’s classified‑use deal and officials said AWS finalized its agreement late Thursday, while some outlets reported Oracle is also included and others did not.
- Australia’s prudential regulator warned that frontier models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos could help bad actors find vulnerabilities faster, raising the probability, speed and scale of cyberattacks.