One piece of context that everyone should keep in mind with the recent Anthropic showdown - Anthropic is trying to land British [0], Indian [1], Japanese [2], and German [3] public sector contracts.

Working with the DoD/DoW on offensive usecases would put these contracts at risk, because Anthropic most likely isn't training independent models on a nation-to-nation basis and thus would be shut out of public and even private procurement outside the US because exporting the model for offensive usecases would be export controlled but governments would demand being parity in treatment or retaliate.

This is also why countries like China, Japan, France, UAE, KSA, India, etc are training their own sovereign foundation models with government funding and backing, allowing them to use them on their terms because it was their governments that build it or funded it.

Imagine if the EU demanded sovereign cloud access from AWS right at the beginning in 2008-09. This is what most governments are now doing with foundation models because most policymakers along with a number of us in the private sector are viewing foundation models from the same lens as hyperscalers.

Frankly, I don't see any offramp other than the DPA even just to make an example out of Anthropic for the rest of the industry.

[0] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/mou-uk-government

[1] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships...

[2] - https://www.anthropic.com/news/opening-our-tokyo-office

[3] - https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5115692008