{"id":542973,"date":"2026-03-17T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542973\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:49:09","slug":"openai-signs-deal-to-give-pentagon-access-to-ai-for-classified-work-through-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542973\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI signs deal to give Pentagon access to AI for classified work through AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has signed a new deal to sell access to its AI models to U.S. defence and government agencies through Amazon\u2019s AMZN-Q<\/a> cloud unit for classified and unclassified work, the ChatGPT maker said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The contract enables OpenAI to support the Pentagon under a deal it secured late last month, after the agency dropped its previous AI provider, Anthropic.<\/p>\n

Anthropic, which won a Pentagon contract worth up to US$200-million in July, 2025, had been a key U.S. defence AI supplier, working with Palantir PLTR-Q<\/a> and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy its Claude models in classified military and intelligence systems.<\/p>\n

But its relationship with the Pentagon collapsed in February after Anthropic refused to allow unrestricted military use of its AI, particularly for domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. Following which, the Pentagon labelled it a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d<\/a> and effectively cut it off from government work.<\/p>\n

Anthropic sues to block Pentagon\u2019s supply-chain risk designation<\/a><\/p>\n

OpenAI, which had previously focused on unclassified government use, has now secured a Pentagon contract to provide its models for classified operations.<\/p>\n

Its partnership with AWS builds on this latest shift, reflecting how access to government and defence contracts, especially via cloud providers already embedded in federal systems, is becoming a key battleground.<\/p>\n

Securing government contracts could also help the ChatGPT maker attract large corporate clients, which often see high-stakes public sector work as a strong signal of trust and reliability.<\/p>\n

Following OpenAI\u2019s transition to a for-profit structure last fall, the company updated its agreement with Microsoft MSFT-Q<\/a> to allow partnerships with rival cloud providers in selling AI to national security customers, including the Pentagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has signed a new deal to sell access to its AI models to U.S. defence and government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,901,276,277,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-542973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alberta","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}