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DoD Clears Eight AI Vendors for IL-6/IL-7 Classified Networks; Anthropic Excluded After Safety Dispute

yesterday 23:04

The U.S. Department of Defense signed classified-network AI agreements with SpaceX/xAI, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and Reflection, authorizing deployment on Impact Level 6 (secret) and IL-7 (top-secret) networks. Anthropic was excluded after it declined to remove safety guardrails covering autonomous weapons and mass-surveillance use cases, and the Trump administration formally severed ties with the company.

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