Published On 4/29/2026
The American company Google has concluded a new agreement with the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon), thus joining the ranks of artificial intelligence companies lined up behind the Pentagon and the administration of US President Donald Trump, according to a Reuters report.
The report indicates that the new agreement allows the Pentagon to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools for whatever it desires and for any secret or overt government purposes.
This deal is consistent with a group of new deals concluded by the ministry with several artificial intelligence companies, including “Open AI” and “XAI”, affiliated with the American businessman Elon Musk.
The new deals ensure that the Pentagon maintains complete freedom and maximum flexibility in using artificial intelligence technologies in defense activities, including operating autonomous weapons or enhancing its systems using technology, according to the report.
For its part, Google confirmed in a statement to The Information newspaper that this deal is not completely new, but rather an amendment to the already existing agreement between the Pentagon and the company.
This deal comes against a backdrop of troubled relations between the White House administration and various artificial intelligence companies, including the removal of an employee of the US Department of Commerce who specializes in artificial intelligence and its commercial legislation, because he had previously worked at Anthropic, which currently has a bad relationship with the White House.
Deals that serve the war first
The White House had concluded a group of various deals with several American companies specialized in artificial intelligence technologies, perhaps the most prominent of which was the “Open AI” deal, which came in the wake of the collapse of relations between “Anthropic” and the Pentagon.
Anthropic’s direct statements caused these relations to deteriorate and collapse to the point that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the inclusion of Anthropic to the blacklist that includes companies that pose a threat to military supply chains.
The crisis between the two parties began at the end of last February, according to a separate report published by the British newspaper “The Guardian”, as Anthropic’s management issued a series of statements confirming that it cannot approve the Pentagon’s use of its technology in a military manner, stressing that the company’s ethical charter rejects the use of artificial intelligence in general surveillance of American citizens as well as the development of autonomous and driving weapons.
Within a few days of deteriorating relations between Anthropic and the Ministry of Defense, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that he had reached an agreement with the Pentagon to use the company’s technologies militarily without any clear restrictions on them, according to a report by the American news agency CNBC.
Grok took the same position, but long before the Anthropic crisis, as the Ministry of War had directly integrated it into its systems since last January.
It should be noted that Anthropic systems were used extensively in planning the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and also planning the war on Iran, according to previous reports from The Guardian.
100 thousand military artificial intelligence agents
In addition to the new deals concluded by the Ministry of War with American companies, it already has an advanced artificial intelligence system that supports the technology of artificial intelligence agents under the name “GenAI.Mil,” according to a report published by the American “Defense Scope” website, which specializes in defense technologies.
The report indicates that the Ministry of War’s plan includes developing more than 100,000 artificial intelligence agents enhanced with artificial intelligence technologies from “Open AI” and “Grok” capable of accessing the ministry’s secret systems.
The platform currently has more than one million users, although its launch has not yet reached the stage of full integration and final launch.
The philosophy of benefiting from war and national duty
While the US Department of War concludes deals with companies that provide artificial intelligence services to civilians as well, it has a partner that fully believes in the philosophy of using artificial intelligence in war as it is a national duty for companies, which is the American company “Palantir”.
Palantir represents the ideal tool for the US Department of War, according to the book written by the company’s founder and CEO, Alex Karp, who pointed out in his book that Silicon Valley companies owe the US government more than just free services.
In his book, published last year, Karp justifies the development of artificial intelligence weapons by saying that all opponents of the United States are seeking to develop them, so the main question is who will reach them first.
The book returned to prominence again in recent weeks after Palantir published, through its official account, a 22-point statement summarizing the book and Karp’s philosophy, which prompted the American website “Ingadget” to describe it as the ravings of an evil man in a comic book.
It is worth noting that all the systems of the US Department of War rely mainly on “Palantir” and its data and integration with artificial intelligence services, in addition to several uses in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency as well. This made the value of the company’s shares jump to $143 per share, achieving profits exceeding $1.41 billion, with a growth of up to 70% over last year, according to the company’s financial statements.
Harsh criticism from employees
On the other hand, the new deal that Google was trying to conclude with the US Department of War did not go through with the employees despite the lack of any official confirmations regarding it, as the employees began to rebel and sent a letter that included the signatures of 20 employees and managers at “DeepMind,” which is responsible for Google’s research into artificial intelligence.
The letter was addressed to the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, asking him to reject the deal with the Ministry of War and place restrictions on it in the worst case, which brings to mind what happened with the “Maven” project, which was stopped by protests by Google employees in recent years and was criticized by Alex Karp in his book.
The question remains: Does the White House draw a red line when promoting the use of artificial intelligence technologies, or does it exploit it and its data in its various battles?
