OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns
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OpenAI announced a deal to provide AI technology to classified US military networks, shortly after the Trump administration ended its relationship with Anthropic (a competing AI company that makes Claude) over ethics disagreements. Anthropic had wanted guarantees that its AI would not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems (systems that can select and attack targets without human decision-making).
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/28/openai-us-military-anthropic
First tracked: February 28, 2026 at 07:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%