News Summary

• The U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that it has signed deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI.
• The deals come as the Pentagon has accelerated its diversification of AI vendors in the wake of its dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.
• The Pentagon wanted unrestricted use of Anthropic’s AI tools, but the AI lab insisted on guardrails to prevent the tech from being used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.