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Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

"AI companies are chasing government users with steep discounts," the Verge AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their generative AI chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, for a nominal fee of $1 to federal agencies. This initiative aims to secure a foothold in the lucrative government sector, where IT

Pentagon awards $800 million in AI contracts to tech giants

Pentagon awards $800 million in AI contracts to tech giants

On 14 July 2025, DOD announced that four of America’s most prominent AI firms—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI—were each awarded contracts worth up to $200 million to supply advanced AI solutions for key national security missions, per a CDAO press release and reported by NextGov. DOD’s

Amazon deepens AI partnership with Anthropic, commits additional $4 billion investment

Amazon deepens AI partnership with Anthropic, commits additional $4 billion investment

Amazon has strengthened its partnership with AI research firm Anthropic, committing an additional $4 billion investment. Under the expanded collaboration Anthropic has named AWS its primary training partner and will utilize AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to deploy its largest AI foundation models. This builds on last year’s agreement,