Pentagon's AI List + Elon Musk Rents His Data Center to Anthropic | AI News in 5

The Pentagon just signed eight AI deals and left Anthropic out. Wall Street is helping both Claude and ChatGPT move deeper into companies. And Elon Musk went from calling Anthropic evil to powering it with his own data center. This week, the Pentagon clears eight major tech companies for classified military AI while Anthropic fights back in court, Anthropic and OpenAI both launch enterprise AI services businesses backed by Wall Street giants, GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model with significantly fewer hallucinations, Greg Brockman takes the witness stand in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, and Anthropic signs a deal with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data center that Musk built for his own AI company. If you are a founder, operator or executive trying to keep up with AI, this is your weekly news briefing every Tuesday. Stories Covered This Week: The Pentagon signs AI agreements with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, SpaceX, Oracle and Reflection while Anthropic fights to stay on the list Anthropic launches a $1.5B enterprise AI services company with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs while OpenAI finalizes a $10B joint venture called The Deployment Co GPT-5.5 Instant is now ChatGPT's default model, making 52.5% fewer errors on high stakes questions Greg Brockman testifies in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, revealing tense scenes from the company's early days Anthropic signs a deal with SpaceX to use Colossus 1, the data center Musk built for xAI, with talks of orbital AI infrastructure to follow Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Pentagon signs eight AI deals, Anthropic left out 01:53 Anthropic and OpenAI launch enterprise AI services businesses 03:30 GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model 04:53 Greg Brockman testifies in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit 06:23 Elon Musk goes from calling Anthropic evil to powering Claude 08:10: Outro Partner Links: Upgrade your AI toolkit: https://www.theaireport.ai/ai-executive-pass Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices