Sam Altman Admits Mistake in Pentagon Deal: “It Looked Opportunistic and Sloppy” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly admitted to “getting it wrong” by rushing the Pentagon agreement, promising to add stricter clauses to the contract following a wave of criticism and protests. What Happened In a series of posts on X on …

OpenAI announced Friday (Feb 27) a historic agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (now called the Department of War by the Trump administration) to deploy its AI models in classified government networks, just hours after President Donald Trump banned federal use of rival Anthropic’s technology. The Agreement …