U.S. Department of Defense Agrees to Implement AI in Confidential Networks with Eight Companies Including OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA; Anthropic Remains Excluded

Department of Defense Signs AI Agreement with Eight Companies

On May 1, the U.S. Department of Defense officially announced that it had signed an agreement with eight companies—SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle—to implement advanced AI in its confidential networks.

The agreement covers the Department of Defense's highest confidentiality levels, 'Impact Level 6 (IL6)' and 'Impact Level 7 (IL7)' networks...