Find XO: A Seat Opened When the Defense Department Removed Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

- The US Department of Defense has designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk company. - Since the issue arose from conflicts over using models in autonomous weapons and large-scale surveillance, leading to a severed customer relationship, including AI usage policies in terms and conditions can essentially mean deciding which revenue streams to forgo. - Founders targeting the government as a customer must carefully consider whether their strategy of securing contracts first and then negotiating usage scope will actually work.