OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’
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OpenAI is modifying its contract with the US Department of Defense after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the original deal appeared poorly planned. The company will now explicitly prohibit its AI technology from being used for mass surveillance (monitoring large groups of people without their knowledge) or by intelligence agencies like the NSA (National Security Agency, which gathers foreign intelligence for the US).
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pentagon-ceo-sam-altman-chatgpt
First tracked: March 3, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%