Steel-manning a bit. AFAIK one major issue was that Palantir relied on Claude under the hood. If that’s true, the designation makes some sense. Essentially “given our dealings with Anthopic, we don’t want our suppliers using them for products we buy either.” Hence the “chain.”
But who knows. None of us are at the table, and there’s probably classified stuff anyway, so as an observer it’s tough to take a position based purely on facts.
In an ideal world, it sounds like Anthropic should not accept the military’s terms, and consequently no supplier will accept Anthropic’s terms, and everybody will get what they want.
But who knows. None of us are at the table, and there’s probably classified stuff anyway, so as an observer it’s tough to take a position based purely on facts.
In an ideal world, it sounds like Anthropic should not accept the military’s terms, and consequently no supplier will accept Anthropic’s terms, and everybody will get what they want.