Lead story: The Pentagon goes all-in on AI
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Office has written three identical $200 million checks—one each to Anthropic, Google, and Elon Musk’s xAI—to push agentic AI from lab to battlefield, only weeks after giving OpenAI the same mandate. This is the state seeding a domestic oligopoly of frontier-model suppliers. It’s not a winner-takes-all bet, but a portfolio hedge that locks talent and compute inside US security perimeters while forcing the giants to prove safety, auditability and interoperability on DoD terms. In the exponential age, power accrues to whoever sets the technical and ethical specs for these agents; America is racing to codify those specs before rivals do. [BreakingDefense] #AIModels
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