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Pentagon Clears 8 Tech Firms for Classified AI (Anthropic excluded) over a clause about domestic surveillance
On May 1, 2026, the Pentagon signed deals with AWS, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, Reflection, and Oracle to run their AI models on Impact Level 6 and 7 networks — the Secret and Top Secret tiers. Anthropic, which most observers assumed was a lock, didn’t make the list. What the deals cover Eight vendors… Continue reading
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Anthropic Enterprise AI Services Firm (with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs) launches with $1.5B to skip the big consulting firms
Anthropic just stopped pretending Accenture and Deloitte are real partners. On May 4, 2026, it announced a brand-new enterprise AI services firm co-built with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. Three main partners chip in roughly $300M each, Goldman comes in as founding investor at $150M, and General Atlantic, Apollo, GIC, Sequoia, and Leonard… Continue reading
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DeepSeek V4 Pro hits GPT-5 parity on 5 of 7 benchmarks — at a fraction of the cost
DeepSeek V4 Pro just got benchmarked by NIST’s CAISI against GPT-5. The verdict: roughly the same intelligence, about 8 months behind frontier closed models, but cheaper than GPT-5.4 mini on 5 of 7 tested benchmarks — anywhere from 53% less expensive to 41% more. That’s the whole story. China’s open-weight champ is again forcing closed-source… Continue reading
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OpenAI on AWS Bedrock ends Microsoft’s seven-year Azure lock
April 28. One day after Microsoft’s exclusivity expired, GPT-5.5 went live on Amazon Bedrock. Seven years of Azure-only is over. What’s actually shipping GPT-5.5, GPT-5.5 Pro, and GPT-5.4 are callable through Bedrock APIs in limited preview. Same IAM, PrivateLink, CloudTrail, and guardrails AWS shops already use for Claude and Llama. Pricing matches OpenAI’s published rates:… Continue reading
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