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The Pentagon's AI Contracts: When Safety Guardrails Become a 'Supply Chain Risk'
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The Pentagon just awarded seven classified AI contracts — and deliberately excluded Anthropic for refusing to strip safety guardrails from autonomous weapons systems. This is the story of how military AI policy, competitive consolidation, and a precedent-setting 'supply chain risk' designation are reshaping every AI company's incentive to maintain a safety policy.
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The Pentagon just handed out seven classified AI contracts, and the deliberate absence of one company tells you more about where military AI is headed than anything in the actual deal. Anthropic was left out.
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