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The Pentagon is placing some of the biggest bets in artificial intelligence history, signing agreements with seven major AI providers — including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and OpenAI — to deploy large language models across classified Department of Defense networks. The move is explicitly designed to avoid dependence on any single vendor, a lesson drawn from the department's recent friction with Anthropic over usage terms.
That spending reflects a broader reality reshaping the entire industry. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are together planning to spend a combined seven hundred twenty-five billion dollars on capital expenditure this year alone — a staggering seventy-seven percent increase over last year's already record-breaking four hundred ten billion. Microsoft points to skyrocketing memory and chip costs as a major driver, attributing twenty-five billion of its own AI budget just to component price increases.
Meanwhile, one user's frustration with Apple is resonating far beyond a single blog post. A developer writing at probably dance dot com describes being locked out of their photo library until they accept new terms of service — no access, no workaround. It's a pointed reminder that when your data lives inside a closed ecosystem, the company holding the keys sets the terms, always.
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