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The US military just signed the biggest AI deal in history. And one company said no. On May 1st, the Pentagon locked in agreements with eight tech giants. Open AI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, SpaceX, Oracle, and a startup called Reflection AI. The mission? Deploy their AI directly into America's most classified networks. Top secret. War Room level access. The price tag? $54 billion, budgeted for autonomous weapons alone. But there's a catch buried in every contract. A single clause. Any lawful operational use. Translation, the military can use your AI however it wants, as long as it's legal. Seven companies signed. One didn't. Anthropic, the maker of Claw said no. Their CEO went public, with fears about AI being used for mass surveillance and fully autonomous kill decisions. The Pentagon's response? They labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk. The same designation reserved for foreign adversaries. Anthropic sued. The case goes to court in September. Meanwhile, over 1.3 million Pentagon personnel are already using AI daily. The race to become the world's first AI first military is live, with or without the one company that pushed back. The future of war is being written in code, and not everyone agreed to the terms.

The US military just signed the biggest AI deal in history. And one company said no. On May 1st, the Pentagon locked in agreements with eight tech giants. Open…