Microsoft and Amazon join Pentagon’s push to build AI-first military with classified network deals

(BigStock Photo) Microsoft and Amazon joined other leading artificial intelligence companies in signing deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon networks, the Defense Department announced Friday, accelerating a push to build what the military is calling an “AI-first fighting force.” The agreements — which also include OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX and the startup Reflection — will give those firms’ AI systems access to the military’s most cla