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The Pentagon’s breakneck plunge into AI integration accelerated last summer after it awarded contracts to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI to implement their models on Department of Defense systems. The planned integrations have gone into effect one by one, with xAI’s Grok going live in late January 2026.
Emma Isabella Sage is the co-founder of a research software startup, LIVINI, a research affiliate at the University of Glasgow, and a 2026 International Strategy Forum fellow. She writes on national security, geoeconomics, and emerging technology.
