Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter

Hayden FieldFeb 28

OpenAI reached a new agreement with the Pentagon.

CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that the agreement allowed the US military to “deploy our models in their classified network.” He said the agreement reflects OpenAI’s desire for prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and “human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems.” Altman also wrote that OpenAI is “asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept.” This follows a rollercoaster week of negotiations between Anthropic and the Pentagon.

Sam Altman’s post

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Hayden Field and Richard LawlerFeb 27

Hayden FieldFeb 27

Even Ilya Sutskever weighed in on the Anthropic-Pentagon situation.

The OpenAI co-founder, who left after CEO Sam Altman’s ouster and reinstatement and then started his own AI startup called Safe Superintelligence, posted on X:

It’s extremely good that Anthropic has not backed down, and it’s siginficant that OpenAI has taken a similar stance.
In the future, there will be much more challenging situations of this nature, and it will be critical for the relevant leaders to rise up to the occasion, for fierce competitors to put their differences aside. Good to see that happen today.

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OpenAI has a new chief people officer.

Arvind KC, who was formerly Roblox’s chief people and systems officer, has also held senior roles at Google, Palantir, and Meta, according to OpenAI. He replaces the company’s former chief people officer, Julia Villagra, who departed in August 2025 after less than six months in the role. The post had since been vacant.