OpenAI Signs Pentagon Deal After Anthropic Blacklist Raises AI Ethics Questions

What Happened OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense following Anthropic’s removal from eligibility for federal contracts. The specific terms and scope of OpenAI’s Pentagon deal have not been fully disclosed. The development comes as major AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Anthropic have increasingly cited competition with China as justification for rapid AI advancement, arguing that whoever develops the most powerful AI systems first could dominate global power structures for decades.