I think Anthropic sounds well-intentioned but is blundering this incident in a big way and they really needed to work better towards a deal instead of isolating themselves with a "principled stance" that sets up a competitor to swoop in and take the contracts they had

And which one of their competitors do you imagine would swoop in and take their contracts while admitting to the rest of their customers that they're okay with their models being used for autonomous weapons and surveillance?