Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon

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 Bloomberg, the three companies — alongside a forth, Reflection AI — have signed agreements granting the Pentagon use of their AI technologies "for lawful operational use" on classified military networks.

"These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force," the Pentagon said in a statement shared with Bloomberg. The four companies join xAI, OpenAI and Google in signing similar deals with the Defense Department. That essentially leaves Anthropic as the lone major US-based AI provider without a working agreement with the Pentagon.

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 ...