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.

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In 2020, the Defense Department published its recommendations for AI ethical principles, which would apply to combat and non-combat efforts.Then-Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper said, “The United States, together with our allies and partners, must accelerate the adoption of AI and lead in its national security applications to maintain our strategic position, prevail on future battlefields ...

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The nations and enterprises that invest in sovereign AI today will control the AI-driven ... NVIDIA's reliance on cloud-based models raises concerns over data sovereignty and national security.