A Pentagon dispute with one of the United States’s leading AI companies, Anthropic, should not have been allowed to happen. Not because the fight was avoidable. Because the terms that caused it should have been settled before the first contract was signed.
They weren’t. That is a failure of policy, not just procurement.
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The dispute forced into the open an issue Washington has been avoiding for years. The federal government is deploying AI systems it does not fully control. It is paying for infrastructure it cannot fully access. National security and economic policy are being built on a foundation where the rules can change after the fact. That is not a technology problem. That is a governance problem, and it has a price.
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