The Pentagon and Google have reached an agreement for the Defense Department to use the tech company’s powerful Gemini AI systems on classified networks, according to a U.S. official familiar with the

Google DeepMind researcher Andreas Kirsch told Business Insider he woke up on Tuesday to a "worst-case version" of events.

Google has reportedly signed an agreement allowing the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for classified work, despite an open letter from hundreds of employees urging the company to stay away from military uses that they say could become dangerous or impossible to oversee.

The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.

Google abruptly dropped out of a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to create technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms after it was among the successful submissions, according to people briefed on the matter.

Google has signed a deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for "any lawful government purpose." This is according to a report by The Information, which also notes that the full details of the contract are classified.

Tech giant added language to contract to say its AI wasn’t intended for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

Hundreds of AI researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed onto a letter urging Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to refuse to make the company’s artificial intelligence systems available for classified workloads for US defense missions,