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OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’

Mar 2, 2026·Policy

This deal is less about technology and more about neutralizing the ethical high ground held by rivals like Anthropic. By embedding its own "safeguards" into a Pentagon contract, OpenAI is attempting to set the de facto industry standard for military AI collaboration. The critical question now is whether these are meaningful constraints or simply a political pass for accelerating AI's role in defense.

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