report<\/a> released Friday, Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and Amazon Web Services have all signed agreements to provide operational capabilities, the Pentagon said in a statement. Two defense officials familiar with the matter also confirmed the agreements.<\/p>\nThe latest additions place them alongside SpaceX, OpenAI, and Google, which had already committed to supplying AI tools for classified use. The announcement also serves as the first formal confirmation from the Pentagon of its agreement with Google, which had surfaced in earlier reports this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n
Officials said the agreement with Amazon Web Services was finalized late Thursday, indicating that negotiations had continued up to the final stages before the announcement.<\/p>\n
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Efforts to build a network of private-sector partners come as the Pentagon looks for alternatives to systems developed by Anthropic, particularly its Claude models. That search follows a dispute between the company and defense officials over how its technology could be used in military settings.<\/p>\n
Anthropic had pushed back against requests to relax safeguards that limit the use of its models in areas such as autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.<\/p>\n
The disagreement deepened over time, with the Defense Department at one point classifying the company as a \u201csupply chain risk,\u201d despite continued internal interest in its systems.<\/p>\n
Pentagon officials have maintained that there are no plans to deploy AI for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens or to enable fully autonomous weapons. At the same time, the department has emphasized that \u201cany lawful use\u201d of artificial intelligence should remain accessible to government agencies under these agreements.<\/p>\n
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