# The Pentagon has announced a new agreement with seven Artificial Intelligence companies to use their advanced technologies for its classified networks.

*genai · news · 2026-05-01 · Al Jazeera*

## Key points

- The Pentagon signed new AI agreements with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and AWS.
- Anthropic was excluded due to a major fallout over Pentagon demands for unrestricted Claude access.
- The Pentagon now seeks to access Anthropic’s Mythos AI, viewed as transformative for cyber operations.
- Over 1.3 million Defense Department personnel actively use its official AI platform, GenAI.mil.
- The Pentagon committed to building AI architecture that avoids vendor lock-in across its deployments.

**Companies:** SpaceX, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Reflection
**Countries:** United States, Iran

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