Pentagon contracts reveal AI giants working in lockstep with US on surveillance, targeting and killing

WASHINGTON – Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI each signed contracts worth up to $200m with the Department of Defence in July 2025 committing them not merely to sell software but to shape the Pentagon’s strategy for using artificial intelligence in ‘warfighting’, automated decision-making, intelligence and logistics, according to more than 400 pages of contract documents […]