[U.S. Department of Defense Reaches Agreement with 7 AI Companies] Golden Finance reported on May 1 that the U.S. Department of Defense issued a statement today announcing that it has reached agreements with seven leading artificial intelligence companies: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The statement noted, 'These agreements accelerate the transformation process of the U.S. military, aiming to build the military into an "AI-dominated" combat force and enhance its ability to maintain decision-making superiority across all domains of warfare.'