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Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon
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You can add Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA to the growing list of tech giants that have decided to give the US Defense Department access to their AI tools.
Key facts
- You can add Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA to the growing list of tech giants that have decided to give the US Defense Department access to their AI tools
- According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, OpenAI saw uninstalls of ChatGPT jump by 413 percent year-over-year in February after the company inked its deal with the Defense
- After Anthropic refused to bow to Hegseth's demands, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Claude and other Anthropic products within six months
- These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force," the Pentagon said shared with Bloomberg
Summary
"These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force," the Pentagon said shared with Bloomberg. In February, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if it did not agree to withdraw safeguards preventing the company's chatbot, Claude, from being used for mass surveillance against Americans or deployed in fully autonomous weapons. The Defense Department's rapid adoption of AI tech, and the speed at which American tech companies are lining up to sell their wares to the Trump administration, should be a concern for all US citizens.