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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, May 1st. I'm Imani-Mauise for the Wall Street Journal.

The Defense Department has completed agreements with seven tech companies to use their AI capabilities in classified

settings, boosting the Pentagon's efforts to gain access to cutting-edge AI tools. The Department

instruct deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, SpaceX, and a startup called Reflection AI.

The agreements show that Silicon Valley power players are open to agreeing to the Defense

Department's terms in a way that Anthropic didn't when it rejected a defense contract

earlier this year. For many months, Anthropics' clod models were some of the only AI tools available in

classified settings. The department's new deals with NVIDIA and reflection signal a desire to

offer highly customizable open source models. Most leading AI models are closed, limiting how

users can customize them. A regulatory filing shows Elon Musk's pay package at Tesla totaled over $158 billion

last year. Shareholders approved the compensation plan last November, which was designed to motivate

Musk to spend more time at the EV maker. The 10-year deal could be worth $1 trillion if Musk hits

every milestone, including growing

Tesla's market cap to $8.5 trillion, delivering 20 million cars, putting one million robotaxies

into service, and selling one million humanoid robots. And Apple reported better than expected

revenue in the second quarter as sales from iPhones jumped more than 20%.

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