The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has awarded contracts totaling nearly $800 million to four leading AI firms.

Contracts of up to $200 million will be granted to Google LLC, OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and, perhaps more surprisingly, Elon Musk’s xAI, whose Grok chatbot recently made headlines when it fell into hot water for promoting Nazi ideology. The DOD said each of the awards will address critical national security challenges.

As geopolitical risks intensify and defense budgets swell, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of national security modernization. From autonomous threat detection to battlefield decision support,

The United States is approaching an inflection point, one defined not by a single crisis, but by the confluence of several slowly building threats to its long-term economic and national security. These threats include the growing federal debt that threatens the market for U.

AI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI received contracts worth up to $200 million to help the Pentagon incorporate artificial intelligence into national

Initiative eyes partnerships with UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait for a regional alliance to counter the Iran-China-Russia axis

America can lead the AI revolution by using its abundant natural gas to power data centers, as Trump brings leaders to Pittsburgh to address this national security challenge.

Today’s announcement by President Donald Trump that America’s biggest companies are investing $90 billion to turn Pittsburgh into a major hub for AI tech is a grand slam.