Spy agencies experimenting with newest AI models

July 30, 2025

Last year the Biden administration grew concerned that Chinese spies and soldiers might leap ahead in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). It ordered its own intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Department of Energy (which builds nuclear weapons), to experiment more aggressively with cutting-edge models and work more closely with “frontier” AI labs—principally Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI…