7 May 2026

Top AI Companies Agree to Pentagon Deals for Classified Work

Amrith Ramkumar

In January, Dario Amodei answered a WSJ reader’s question about potential breakthroughs in AI development in an interview with WSJ Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Photo: Maurizio Martorana for The Wall Street Journal

The Defense Department has completed agreements with eight technology companies, including many of the industry’s biggest, to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings, boosting the Pentagon’s efforts to gain access to cutting-edge AI tools.

The department said Friday it was now capable of using in classified settings the technology and models from the ChatGPT maker, OpenAI; Alphabet’s GOOGL 1.35%increase; green up pointing triangle Google; Elon Musk’s SpaceX; Microsoft; Amazon.com; Oracle ORCL 2.81%increase; green up pointing triangle; Nvidia NVDA -1.00%decrease; red down pointing triangle; and a startup, Reflection AI. SpaceX owns Musk’s AI company, xAI.

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