
OpenAI Brings AWS Into Its U.S. Government Push
OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
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OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.

At BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit, Sam Altman laid out OpenAI's vision of selling AI compute by the token like a metered utility, backed by a $110 billion war chest and the Stargate buildout.

Dario Amodei tells a Morgan Stanley audience he is trying to 'deescalate' the Pentagon dispute, as the FT reports both sides are back at the table with under-secretary Emil Michael.

OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.

Days after securing a Pentagon classified network deal, OpenAI is exploring a contract to deploy AI on NATO's unclassified systems - a 32-nation alliance spanning North America and Europe.

OpenAI's CEO admits the Pentagon deal was rushed and amends it with new surveillance protections - but legal experts say the fixes don't close the real loopholes.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon classified network deal with prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons - the exact same terms that got Anthropic banned from all federal agencies hours earlier.

OpenAI's CEO told the India AI Impact Summit that training AI costs less energy than raising a human child, while thousands of users petition to reverse GPT-4o's retirement.

Nvidia abandons its $100B infrastructure partnership with OpenAI after five months of stalling, replacing it with a $30B equity stake as OpenAI's record-breaking funding round nears $100B at an $850B valuation.

At the India AI Impact Summit, PM Modi orchestrated a unity hand-raise with 13 tech leaders. Everyone clasped hands - except Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who raised clenched fists instead. The internet noticed.