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(Bloomberg/Dina Bass and Shirin Ghaffary) — OpenAI is looking to bolster its US hardware supply chain and find partners for a push into consumer devices, robotics and cloud data centers, part of a major product expansion planned for the coming years.

The deal came hours after President Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival.

While facing massive public backlash over a new Pentagon deal, OpenAI decided the best course of action was to release a new GPT-5.3 Instant model that promises to be "less cringe."

The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would pledge not to use Anthropic’s AI for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous killing machines,

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