{"id":192313,"date":"2025-06-17T18:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192313\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:12:10","slug":"openai-wins-200m-contract-with-us-military-for-warfighting-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192313\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for \u2018warfighting\u2019 | OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The US Department of Defense on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200m contract to put generative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) to work for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US military<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-francisco\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco<\/a>-based company will \u201cdevelop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains\u201d, according to the defense department\u2019s posting of awarded contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The program with the defense department is the first partnership under the startup\u2019s initiative to put AI to work in governments, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI<\/a>. The company plans to show how cutting-edge AI can vastly improve administrative operations such as how service members get healthcare and also cyber defenses, according to a blog post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The startup claims that all use of AI for the military will be consistent with OpenAI usage guidelines, which are determined by OpenAI itself.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-4\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">A weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our lives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"dcr-1rjy2q9\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-4\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Big tech companies are increasingly pitching their tools to the US military, among them Meta and, more predictably, Palantir, the AI defense company founded by Peter Thiel, the conservative tech billionaire who has played a major role in Silicon Valley\u2019s rightward shift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">OpenAI and defense tech startup Anduril Industries late last year announced a partnership to develop and deploy AI solutions \u201cfor security missions\u201d. The alliance brings together OpenAI models and Anduril\u2019s military tech platform to ramp up defenses against aerial drones and other \u201cunmanned aircraft systems\u201d, according to the companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cOpenAI builds AI to benefit as many people as possible, and supports US-led efforts to ensure the technology upholds democratic values,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman, said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Department of Defense on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200m contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700061524924085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}