{"id":406974,"date":"2026-05-01T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:31:07","slug":"pentagon-strikes-ai-deals-for-classified-military-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406974\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon strikes AI deals for classified military use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CH5OSJSDSNCVJBGCBANICBOYAU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Seven leading artificial intelligence companies have reached deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon computer networks, the Defense Department said Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2NX2UAYPDBG3JOK7JEHP6YVLXA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cTogether, the War Department and these strategic partners share the conviction that American leadership in AI is indispensable to national security,\u201d the Pentagon said in a statement, using the administration\u2019s preferred name for the Defense Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven leading artificial intelligence companies have reached deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon computer networks, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-406974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}