The Pentagon says it’s getting its AI providers on ‘the same baseline’

PALM BEACH, Fla.—After weeks of back-and-forth with AI company Anthropic, the Pentagon is actively talking with all four major U.S. AI players—Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI—to ensure the companies and the Defense Department are at "the same baseline" regarding Pentagon expectations, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering said Tuesday. “We actually signed contracts with all four of them over the summer without a lot of specificity,” Emil