Google is in talks with the Pentagon about deploying its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) system for classified work. The discussions, first reported by Reuters , come as the U.S. military continues to reassess not only how it uses artificial intelligence, but which private‑sector partners it is willing to trust with some of its most sensitive data and missions. A Pentagon official told Newsweek : "The Pentagon will continue to rapidly deploy frontier AI capabilities to the warfighter