OpenAI Signs AWS Deal to Sell AI to US Government for Classified and Unclassified Work
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OpenAI signed a new partnership with AWS on March 17 to distribute its AI systems to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding its federal footprint beyond the Pentagon deal secured last month. The deal leverages AWS GovCloud infrastructure already embedded in federal systems, giving OpenAI a path to intelligence community contracts that Anthropic forfeited after refusing military use terms in February. This marks a clear divergence: Anthropic ceded the government market on ethics grounds; OpenAI is consolidating it.