Pentagon's AI Procurement Reset: Seven Companies, One Blacklisted Anthropic, and the First Amendment Fight Reshaping Defense AI - May 2, 2026

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Pentagon's AI Procurement Reset: Seven Companies, One Blacklisted Anthropic, and the First Amendment Fight Reshaping Defense AI - May 2, 2026 The Department of War cleared SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, and open weight startup Reflection AI for classified networks while keeping Anthropic blacklisted as a supply chain risk. We unpack the autonomous weapons and surveillance carve outs that triggered the standoff, the First Amendment lawsuit, the appellate reversal, and the str...