US Military Reaches Deals With 7 Tech Companies to Use Their AI on Classified Systems

The Pentagon announced Friday it has secured deals with seven major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection, and SpaceX to integrate their artificial intelligence into classified military networks. The agreements will allow the military to use AI for tasks like accelerating target identification, organizing supply lines, and supporting battlefield decision-making, though questions remain about appropriate human oversight and the risk of over-reliance on the technology. Notably absent from the partnerships is Anthropic, which is in a legal dispute with the Trump administration over ethics and safety concerns related to AI use in warfare, particularly around autonomous weapons and surveillance of Americans.