'We shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday': OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it's been a 'good learning experience'

‘We shouldn’t have rushed to get this out on Friday’: OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it’s been a ‘good learning experience’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these AI Todd Howard says AI’s ‘not a fad’ but ‘we’re not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that’s where we want to be’ AI Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to ‘delete and recreate the environment’ from scratch, while Amazon says ‘misconfigured access controls’ were to blame Gaming Industry Krafton’s new chief AI officer says the company ‘uses AI as a tool to amplify human imagination and creativity, not replace it’ 3 months after it announced a hiring freeze and launched a voluntary resignation programme Gaming Industry Microsoft’s execs can’t stop hooting and hollering about AI, but Xbox’s new overlords promise ‘We’ve got no pressure’ from up top that would ‘flood our ecosystem with slop’ AI ‘I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb’: OpenClaw AI chose to ‘speedrun’ deleting Meta AI safety director’s inbox due to a ‘rookie error’ AI ‘The compute bottleneck is massively under appreciated’ says Google AI Studio lead: ‘I would guess the gap between supply and demand is growing [by a] single digit % every day’ AI Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: ‘Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently’ AI OpenAI announces another $110 billion in investment funding including $30 billion from Nvidia, but says Microsoft is still its best friend forever AI Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it’s basically pointless when everybody else is ‘blazing ahead’ AI Anthropic is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’ Platforms Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in ‘AI slop’ code contributions: ‘I don’t know how long we can keep it up’ AI A human software engineer rejected an AI agent’s code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an ‘angry’ blog about him AI Anthropic says it has identified thousands of ‘fraudulent accounts’ taking Claude and ‘extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models’ AI Microsoft CEO warns that we must ‘do something useful’ with AI or they’ll lose ‘social permission’ to burn electricity on it AI Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Software AI ‘We shouldn’t have rushed to get this out on Friday’: OpenAI hastily amends the terms of its controversial deal with the US Department of War as CEO Sam Altman claims it’s been a ‘good learning experience’ News By Andy Edser published 3 March 2026 “We want to have a voice, and a seat at the table where we can share our expertise, and to fight for principles of liberty.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter After a very public falling out between Anthropic and the US Department of War late last week—in which the former refused to remove safeguards preventing its AI tools from being used for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance purposes—OpenAI stepped into the vacuum with a deal to use its own AI tools in the US military’s systems.However, after reaching an agreement with the Pentagon on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has since announced that his company will be amending the language used within the deal (via BBC News). In a statement posted on X, Altman appears to regret jumping into the fold quite so quickly, amid considerable backlash to the earlier terms.Here is re-post of an internal post:We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else:”• Consistent with applicable laws,&helli