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Friday night, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was still drafting his principled stand against the Pentagon, Sam Altman announced on X that OpenAI had signed a deal to deploy models in the classified network of the Department of War, as the Trump administration has renamed the Pentagon. Hours later, the United States and Israel began bombing Iran. By Saturday morning, Claude was the number-one app in the App Store and Anthropic was designated a supply-chain risk to national security — an action that legal analysts say is without public precedent for an American company.
TL;DR
- OpenAI signed a deal to deploy models in the Department of War's classified network, while Anthropic resisted a similar deal.
- Anthropic was designated a supply-chain risk to national security, an unprecedented action for an American company.
- Sam Altman's OpenAI secured the largest private funding round in history and a defense contract.
- These events are seen as connected and will reshape power dynamics in the AI industry.