After Anthropic's 200M USD Pentagon contract fell through over disputes about restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, the DOD is building its own AI alternatives. The chief digital officer says engineering has begun for government-owned LLMs expected soon. OpenAI and xAI have already filled the gap. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/the-pentagon-is-developing-alternatives-to-anthropic-report-says/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #GlobalAIGovernance #Anthropic
