New Delhi, March 4 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the company's decision to allow ChatGPT to be used for classified assignments by the US government, as per multiple media reports. The ChatGPT maker had faced a lot of criticism after it announced the deal with the Pentagon last week just hours after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Anthropic would be categorized as a supply chain risk, a designation usually reserved for adversarial foreign companies.

Altman said, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal, that he didn't regret signing the deal with the Defense Department but he wished that he hadn't announced the decision so quickly, making it look "opportunistic" and "not united with the field."

Meanwhile, as per a CNBC re...