{"id":219606,"date":"2026-03-03T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/altman-reportedly-tells-staff-openai-wants-another-classified-contract-this-time-with-nato\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:05:48","slug":"altman-reportedly-tells-staff-openai-wants-another-classified-contract-this-time-with-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/altman-reportedly-tells-staff-openai-wants-another-classified-contract-this-time-with-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman Reportedly Tells Staff OpenAI Wants Another Classified Contract. This Time with NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Altman Reportedly Tells Staff OpenAI Wants Another Classified Contract. This Time with NATO<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-03 22:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Multiple news outlets got a peek at transcripts from an OpenAI all-hands meeting Tuesday in which CEO Sam Altman sought to soothe his apparently agitated employees in the wake of the company\u2019s fatefully timed contract with the Pentagon. <\/p>\n

Altman mostly comes across as conciliatory. The Wall Street Journal says he called the ordeal \u201cpainful\u201d and seemed to regret looking \u201cnot united with the field.\u201d CNBC\u2019s reporting says Altman \u201chas been vocally criticized\u201d by some of his employees.<\/p>\n

But a standout passage in the Wall Street Journal\u2019s write-up on the meeting says OpenAI is actually going back for seconds. Altman apparently told his staff that OpenAI is \u201clooking at a contract to deploy on all North Atlantic Treaty Organization classified networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, clearance just to be used on NATO\u2019s classified networks is already an apparently lucrative trophy. Apple proudly announced that it received an approval from NATO just last month, saying iPhones and iPads can now be used for classified NATO purposes\u2014a first for any consumer device, apparently. <\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s freshly inked Pentagon contract does more or less the reverse of this: grants permission for the Department of Defense to use OpenAI\u2019s technology freely, and without OpenAI getting to \u201cmake operational decisions,\u201d according to CNBC\u2019s reading of the meeting transcript. The New York Times describes it as a \u201cdeal to provide artificial intelligence technologies for the Defense Department\u2019s classified systems.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

NATO signaled last year that its members would be increasing their defense budgets drastically, triggering what venture capitalist Dave Harden said at the time would be an \u201cAI gold rush.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s broader monetary contract with the Pentagon was announced back in June of last year when the company announced its OpenAI for Government product. Through the Pentagon\u2019s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) OpenAI was awarded up to…<\/p>\n

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