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Signed a deal to deploy its models inside the U.S. Department of War’s classified network. Anthropic says it refused the Pentagon’s “all lawful use” contract standard because it would not remove two limits: no mass domestic surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons.
The Pentagon announced on May 1, 2026 that it had contracted seven AI companies — Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, SpaceX, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Reflection AI — to deploy artificial intelligence tools on classified US military networks, despite Anthropic declining the same contract citing autonomous weapons concerns.
Read more →Microsoft publicly confirmed it sold AI and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during the Gaza war, also granting access to OpenAI's GPT-4 model after OpenAI changed its policy against military use in January 2024.
Read more →An Associated Press investigation found Microsoft and OpenAI AI tools were used as part of an Israeli military programme to select bombing targets in Gaza and Lebanon, with AI usage spiking nearly 200 times above pre-war levels.
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