OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal Over Surveillance Concerns

OpenAI is renegotiating its contract with the US Defence Department after Sam Altman acknowledged the original deal was "opportunistic and sloppy," with insufficient safeguards against mass surveillance. The move comes as rival Anthropic's Claude surged to the number one spot on the US App Store after being blacklisted by the Pentagon over its own ethics concerns — dethroning ChatGPT within a single day. The duelling AI-military relationships have put the ethics of defence contracts at the centre of the industry's public image battle.

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