Pentagon Reaches Agreements With Top AI Companies, But Not Anthropic
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/01/1913249/pentagon-reaches-agreements-with-top-ai-companies-but-not-anthropic
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> SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, providing more military access to their products for use on sensitive topics, the Pentagon [3]said in a statement . The lesser-known Reflection AI, which raised $2 billion in October, is backed by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner and investor.
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> Since the Pentagon deemed Anthropic's products a "supply-chain risk" in March and the two sides became embroiled in a lawsuit, the military has expressed increasing interest in AI startups. Since the blow-up, newer AI entrants have said the military has sped up the process of incorporating them onto secret and top-secret data levels to less than three months. The process previously took 18 months or longer.
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> By expanding AI services offered to troops, who use it for planning, logistics, targeting and in other ways to streamline huge operations and perform more quickly, the Pentagon said in its statement it will avoid "vendor lock," a likely nod to its overdependence on Anthropic or other dominant service providers. [...] AI has become increasingly important for the U.S. military. The Pentagon's main AI platform, GenAI.mil, has been used by over 1.3 million Defense Department personnel, the agency noted in its release, after five months of operation.
Further reading: [4]Google and Pentagon Reportedly Agree On Deal For 'Any Lawful' Use of AI
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/pentagon-reaches-agreements-with-leading-ai-companies-2026-05-01/
[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/09/1710252/anthropic-sues-the-pentagon-after-being-labeled-a-threat-to-national-security
[3] https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4475177/classified-networks-ai-agreements/
[4] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/28/1634227/google-and-pentagon-reportedly-agree-on-deal-for-any-lawful-use-of-ai
Re:Anthropic _is_ the odd one out. (Score:4)
Anthropic IS the odd one out... in that they baked the guardrails into their model vs just in the license agreement.
Funny how that makes them a threat. Kind of like if you sold guns, but the guns magically would not fire at cops, and one particular group of "respectable businessmen" would not buy them because of that. Yeah... what would that imply about those particular customers intentions?
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Jesus, this is a brain-dead take. Anthropic is the AFAICT only for-profit company that takes AI safety and alignment seriously.
Dario (and others') work on [1]Constitutional AI [arxiv.org] is AFAICT the only realistic solution to this very real engineering problem. And they [2]publish [anthropic.com] what could be their secret-sauce constitution, verbatim, under a Creative Commons license.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073
[2] https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
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MAGA shill says what?
Ethics in Supply Chain (Score:2)
It's quite telling that a company having ethics designates them a supply chain risk.
Especially after it was reported that the US bombing of a school was one selected by an AI tool and the government theoretically had policies already that aligned with their ethics