1. Pentagon Clears Seven AI Vendors for Classified Work — Anthropic Excluded as Supply-Chain Risk
The U.S. Defense Department has finalized AI agreements with seven technology providers — OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection — granting the Pentagon access to their AI systems for classified operations, according to an announcement on Friday. The deals mark a signific...