WHITE HOUSE SECRETLY APPROVES $9 BILLION FOR SPY AGENCIES TO BUY NVIDIA AI CHIPS The CIA and NSA have been running on outdated compute, unable to test or run the most advanced AI models. That changes now. The White House quietly approved a $9 billion request to arm America’s intelligence agencies with Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell superchips — the most powerful AI hardware on the planet. Congress still needs to sign off on the bulk of the funding, but the administration is not waiting. An $800 million emergency reprogramming is already underway to buy capacity right now. The reason is straightforward and alarming: the CIA and NSA have been locked out of testing the newest versions of ChatGPT because they lacked the compute to run them. Every month this gap persisted, adversaries closed ground. China, which has been aggressively building AI infrastructure, has not been sitting still. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has meanwhile authorized the NSA to continue using Anthropic’s Claude even though the Pentagon separately designated Anthropic a supply chain threat — a contradiction that says everything about how fractured and urgent AI strategy inside the government has become. The $9 billion targets infrastructure: specialized data centers capable of supplying the enormous power and liquid cooling demands of the Grace Blackwell chips. The intelligence community’s AI lag is no longer a rumor. It is a budget line. Keywords: CIA AI chips, NSA artificial intelligence, White House AI funding, Nvidia Grace Blackwell intelligence