Pentagon Clears 7 AI Companies for Classified Networks — Anthropic Excluded as 'Supply Chain Risk'

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The Department of Defense signed agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on Impact Level 6 and 7 classified networks for warfighter decision-making and situational awareness. Oracle was added hours later as an eighth partner. Anthropic was notably excluded after being designated a 'supply chain risk' by the Trump administration — a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries — prompting Anthropic to sue.