[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> Thanks Adrian, good summary and analysis.

You are welcome.

> When a company sells a product to the military, the military is buying the source code if it has any (everything has embedded code.)  The military can take it apart, change stuff, do whatever it wants.  If a company isn't willing to hand over the source code, the military can't fully control it and will not buy it.  Nearly every line of code I ever wrote in my career is now the property of the US government.  They are free to do whatever they want with the code and the technology that went into it.

That is what should happen, and what usually has happened.  It has
notably not happened this time, for multiple reasons - some political,
some practical.

> Adrian what do you suppose the US Space Force is doing?  Are they developing a rocket capable of going into earth orbit?  No.  They aren't talking about what they are doing in there.  But I have some guesses.  They watch and listen.  The military knew about the risks and promise of AI since way back, and they have their ways of dealing with it.  We don't know what they are doing, for they are not advertising it.  They are not like the Hollywood's vision, such as Major T.J. Kong.

They are advertising quite a lot of it - not all the details, but
enough to get a general sense.  A lot of Space Force stuff would be
more properly titled Cyber Force.

But yeah, developing launch vehicles is left to civvies like me - for
the actual work part, anyway.