🟣 EV Daily: The Pentagon goes all-in on AI
This is EV Daily – built for those who can’t afford to miss the signal. Exponential View includes the Sunday Edition, essays, and podcasts—plus EV Daily. Want to manage your email cadence? Follow these steps. Lead story: The Pentagon goes all-in on AIThe Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Office has written three identical $200 million checks—one each to Anthropic, Google, and Elon Musk’s xAI—to push agentic AI from lab to battlefield, only weeks after giving OpenAI the same mandate. This is the state seeding a domestic oligopoly of frontier-model suppliers. It’s not a winner-takes-all bet, but a portfolio hedge that locks talent and compute inside US security perimeters while forcing the giants to prove safety, auditability and interoperability on DoD terms. In the exponential age, power accrues to whoever sets the technical and ethical specs for these agents; America is racing to codify those specs before rivals do. [BreakingDefense] #AIModels Key signals, quick scanA 30-second scan of four secondary signals that hint at where the curve is bending.
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