{"id":715564,"date":"2026-03-07T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anthropics-pentagon-deal-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups-chasing-federal-contracts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:05:10","slug":"anthropics-pentagon-deal-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups-chasing-federal-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anthropics-pentagon-deal-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-startups-chasing-federal-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic&#8217;s\u00a0Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon has officially\u00a0designated\u00a0Anthropic\u00a0a supply-chain risk\u00a0after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models,\u00a0including\u00a0its\u00a0use in\u00a0autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0$200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned to OpenAI instead,\u00a0which\u00a0accepted and\u00a0then watched\u00a0ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%. 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As\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0$200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned to OpenAI instead,\u00a0which\u00a0accepted and\u00a0then watched\u00a0ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%. As the stakes keep rising, the question\u00a0remains: how much unrestricted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":715565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2252871842.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,110660,151475,152300,160982,138467,80881,158883,141199,97505,70917],"class_list":["post-715564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-acquisition","tag-anduril","tag-anthropic","tag-cal-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-department-of-defense","tag-equity-video","tag-openai","tag-saas","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}