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Pentagon militarizes AI without Anthropic — raising questions about laws of armed conflict
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On May 1, 2026, the Pentagon signed agreements with seven AI giants — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft and Amazon — to integrate their models into its classified Level 6 and 7 networks. Anthropic, which had powered most US military AI through Claude, was excluded after refusing to waive its safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The Pentagon labeled it a 'supply chain risk' — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries.
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