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Fortune
Kali Hays

The new 'land grab' for AI companies, from Meta to OpenAI, is military contracts

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, in 2024 walking through a lobby after a meeting on Capitol Hill. (Credit: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Silicon Valley AI companies have a new BFF: the U.S. Department of Defense.

The leading companies developing generative AI technology have spun up, deepened, or started to pursue relationships with the military in recent months in some cases even revising or making exceptions to internal policies to remove roadblocks and restrictions on defense work. 

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