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5. Sam Altman: Admits Pentagon Deal Was "Opportunistic and Sloppy," Frustrated by AI Adoption Speed
Altman acknowledged OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" the Pentagon agreement, calling it "opportunistic and sloppy," and renegotiated to add surveillance prohibitions after backlash (295% spike in ChatGPT uninstalls, own employees signing open letter supporting Anthropic). Separately, he expressed frustration that there's "more resistance to the diffusion, the absorption of AI into the culture and economy than he expected." Fortune argues this adoption resistance is entirely self-inflicted: AI lead
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