alt Hacker NewsThe shocking part of the story is the scale.
1.5 Million Users just within the Pentagon?
"The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the department’s bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025."
"The number of Department of Defense personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has significantly increased from just 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO claimed during his remarks at the Hudson Institute."
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BurningFrog • today at 3:29 PM
Everyone is starting to use AI. I use three AIs daily. Why would the US military be different?
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"The Department of Defense is the country’s largest employer, with more than 2.1 million Military Service members and over 811 thousand civilian employees."
From https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/...