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267 articles decelerating

Pentagon has appeared in 267 articles since 2015-08. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 66 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside DOD, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft.

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Acceleration
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Baked In
On March 21, the Pentagon made Palantir's Maven — which runs on Claude — an official program of record. On March 22, Anthropic filed that it cannot manipulate C...
Supply Chain Risk
The DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk for reserving the right to refuse military orders. The same day, Ramp data showed Anthropic capturing 73% of ne...
The Resignation
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract and killed it. In 2026, OpenAI's head of robotics resigned over a Pentagon AI contract an...
The Backers
A leaked memo shows Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater." The same day, some of Anthropic's own investors pushed the company to back down. Six...
The Vacuum
In 2018, a dozen Google employees resigned over a Pentagon AI contract. Eight years later, Palmer Luckey's Anduril is raising $4 billion at a $30 billion valuat...

Coverage Timeline

2026-01-27
Wall Street Journal 9 related

The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack

Recruiters will get access to Slack as part of a contract that reflects the Pentagon's drive to adopt commercial software tools

2025-07-15
Bloomberg 35 related

Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on China

Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.

2024-06-14
Bloomberg

The Pentagon renews a contract with SpaceX to provide Starlink internet services in Ukraine until November 30 at a cost of $14.1M

2024-04-10
Bloomberg 6 related

A US official says SpaceX's Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg :

2024-03-13
Bloomberg 7 related

Sources: the Pentagon abandoned its plan to spend up to $2.5B on a chip grant to Intel, putting the onus on the Commerce Department to make up for the shortfall

Bloomberg :

2022-12-08
CNBC 22 related

The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle cloud contracts with a shared ceiling of $9B through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability

- Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.

2021-07-07
CNBC 50 related

The Pentagon has canceled the $10B JEDI cloud contract that was awarded to Microsoft but faced legal challenges from Amazon, announced new multivendor contract

2020-02-10
CNBC 4 related

Amazon's AWS says it wants to depose Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and former Defense Secretary James Mattis after losing Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract

- Amazon's cloud-computing arm wants to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis …

2019-10-27
CNBC 46 related

Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon

Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday.

2019-10-26
CNBC 34 related

Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon

Microsoft has emerged victorious in a dramatic competition for public cloud resources for the U.S. Defense Department, beating out market leader Amazon Web Services, the Pentagon said on Friday.

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Pentagon has appeared in 159 Techmeme articles since August 2015. The biggest stories include Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon... and Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump.... Frequently covered alongside Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Oracle. Coverage has shifted toward safety, developer themes and away from enterprise.

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2024Q2enterprise +42pts; consumer +33pts; funding -25pts
2024Q3enterprise +33pts; consumer -33pts
2024Q4enterprise -75pts; regulation +25pts

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