Pentagon Taps AI Giants in $200 Million Deal — What It Means for Small Businesses
The U.S. Department of Defense just awarded contracts worth up to $200 million each to four frontier AI companies—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI—to build “agentic AI” systems that can plan, reason and act across war-fighting, intelligence and back-office workflows. While the headlines focus on national security, the move signals a decisive shift: commercial AI is now mission-critical.
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