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3 developments and 2 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- Rule · In forceUSEO 14179
Also on Project Meridian and the race to govern military AI, Washington vs the states on AI rules
- Pentagon AI office awards Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI up to $200m each
It brought the leading frontier labs directly into US military work at once and set up the vendor relationships that later fuelled the dispute over usage limits.
Also on The Pentagon, the labs and the limits on use, Who supplies the AI-first military?
- Department of War launches GenAI.mil with Google's Gemini for Government
Frontier chat models became a standard desk tool across the US military, creating a large captive market for model vendors and a test of IL5-level security for commercial AI.
- Hegseth orders an 'AI-first' military and 'any lawful use' terms for AI contracts
Vendors selling AI to the US military can no longer rely on their own usage policies to limit military applications, which set up the clash with Anthropic weeks later.
Also on The Pentagon, the labs and the limits on use, Project Meridian and the race to govern military AI, Who supplies the AI-first military?