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OpenAI and Anthropic Both Navigate Fraught Pentagon AI Deals
Sam Altman has told OpenAI employees that the company cannot control how the Pentagon actually uses its AI products in military operations, even as the firm rushes to add surveillance safeguards to a hastily announced defence deal. Separately, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is back in talks with a deputy to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, seeking a compromise on the terms of its own military AI agreement.





