OpenAI Leadership Defends Deal With Pentagon as Employees Wait in Limbo

Critics are worried OpenAI's technology will be used for mass surveillance and fully autonomous military strikes.

OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon

By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Owns Up To Botched Pentagon Deal Communication, Vows Fix— 'It Just Looked Opportunistic And Sloppy'OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Owns Up To Botched Pentagon ...

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted that the announcement of his company's deal with the Pentagon was hastily made and poorly communicated.

OpenAI Secures Major Deal with Pentagon as Trump, Hegseth Condemn Anthropic

OpenAI secures a Pentagon deal to deploy AI on classified systems as the US government bars Anthropic over national security concerns.

Anthropic’s Claude overtakes ChatGPT in App Store as users boycott over OpenAI’s $200 million Pentagon contract

OpenAI replaced Anthropic on a Pentagon deal worth up to $200 million, but in doing so, it may have handed its biggest rival a victory by pushing them to the top of the App Store. Anthropic’s Claude climbed to the No.

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon following Claude blacklisting — Anthropic to challenge supply chain risk designation in court

Altman’s announcement came not long after President Trump “ordered” every federal agency to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology.