DOD expands classified AI work with eight companies, excluding Anthropic, amid ongoing dispute

The Department of Defense is expanding its classified AI work to eight companies while excluding Anthropic amid an ongoing dispute, according to a DefenseScoop article republished by Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology. CSET's Lauren Kahn provided expert commentary on the Pentagon's push to integrate advanced AI into classified military operations and the broader implications of wider AI adoption across the DOD. The exclusion tracks with contemporaneous reporting of friction between Anthropic and the Pentagon, and marks a concrete procurement consequence of that dispute; the identities of the eight companies were not specified in the available material.