{"id":207749,"date":"2026-05-01T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/pentagon-strikes-deals-with-7-big-tech-companies-after-shunning-anthropic\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:00:21","slug":"pentagon-strikes-deals-with-7-big-tech-companies-after-shunning-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/pentagon-strikes-deals-with-7-big-tech-companies-after-shunning-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/01\/tech\/pentagon-ai-anthropic\">Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/01\/tech\/pentagon-ai-anthropic\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/01\/tech\/pentagon-ai-anthropic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-01 09:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Defense has reached an agreement with seven major technology companies to incorporate their artificial intelligence tools into classified defense networks.<\/li>\n<li>Companies included in the deal are SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection. Note that Anthropic is notably excluded from this agreement.<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration had previously blacklisted Anthropic over disagreements regarding the use of AI in warfare, but renewed discussions have emerged after recent technology advancements from Anthropic.<\/li>\n<li>The AI tools from these companies will be employed for &#8220;lawful operational use,&#8221; aiming to enhance the military&#8217;s proficiency in domain warfare and decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon highlights the success of its GenAI.mil platform which has been utilized by 1.3 million DoD personnel.<\/li>\n<li>Historically, Anthropic&#8217;s AI model, Claude, was the only one in the Pentagon&#8217;s classified network; however, the Trump administration severed ties with the company over terms concerning the use of AI for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic faced a &#8220;supply chain risk&#8221; designation akin to those given to companies associated with foreign adversaries, and subsequently sued the government, finding legal support against the blacklisting.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei&#8217;s recent meeting with White House officials signals a potential shift in the dialogue between the company and the government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon strikes deals with 7 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/01\/tech\/pentagon-ai-anthropic Publish Date: 2026-05-01&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2235918487-20251008165505063.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-207749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207751,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207749\/revisions\/207751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}