OpenAI has reached an settlement with the Protection Division to deploy its fashions within the company’s community, firm chief Sam Altman has revealed on X. In his put up, he stated two of OpenAI’s most vital security ideas are “prohibitions on home mass surveillance and human duty for using pressure, together with for autonomous weapon techniques.” Altman claimed the corporate put these ideas in its settlement with the company, which he known as by the federal government’s most well-liked title of Division of Warfare (DoW), and that it had agreed to honor them.
The company has closed the cope with OpenAI, shortly after President Donald Trump ordered all authorities businesses to cease utilizing Claude and some other Anthropic providers. Should you’ll recall, US Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth beforehand threatened to label Anthropic “provide chain threat” if it continues refusing to take away the guardrails on its AI, that are stopping the know-how for use for mass surveillance towards Individuals and in absolutely autonomous weapons.
It’s unclear why the federal government agreed to staff up with OpenAI if its fashions even have the identical guardrails, however Altman stated it’s asking the federal government to supply the identical phrases to all of the AI corporations it really works with. Jeremy Lewin, the Senior Official Underneath Secretary for International Help, Humanitarian Affairs, and Spiritual Freedom, stated on X that DoW “references sure present authorized authorities and contains sure mutually agreed upon security mechanisms” in its contracts. Each OpenAI and xAI, which had additionally beforehand signed a deal to deploy Grok within the DoW’s categorized techniques, agreed to these phrases. He stated it was the identical “compromise that Anthropic was supplied, and rejected.”
Anthropic, which began working with the US authorities in 2024, refused to bow right down to Hegseth. In its newest assertion, revealed simply hours earlier than Altman introduced OpenAI’s settlement, it repeated its stance. “No quantity of intimidation or punishment from the Division of Warfare will change our place on mass home surveillance or absolutely autonomous weapons,” Anthropic wrote. “We are going to problem any provide chain threat designation in court docket.”
Altman added in his put up on X that OpenAI will construct technical safeguards to make sure the corporate’s fashions behave as they need to, claiming that’s additionally what the DoW needed. It’s sending engineers to work with the company to “guarantee [its models’] security,” and it’ll solely deploy on cloud networks. As The New York Timesnotes, OpenAI shouldn’t be but on Amazon cloud, which the federal government makes use of. However that might change quickly, as firm has additionally simply introduced forming a partnership with Amazon to run its fashions on Amazon Net Providers (AWS) for enterprise prospects.
Tonight, we reached an settlement with the Division of Warfare to deploy our fashions of their categorized community.
In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for security and a want to companion to attain the very best consequence.
AI security and broad distribution of…— Sam Altman (@sama) February 28, 2026
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