alt Hacker NewsThe comment you replied to is pretty clear: Yes, the US government seeks to void the contract they already signed.
That said, many government contracts include some variant of "we can cancel at any time for any reason".
The comment you replied to is pretty clear: Yes, the US government seeks to void the contract they already signed.
That said, many government contracts include some variant of "we can cancel at any time for any reason".
It's actually even worse than that: Anthropic already agrees that the Pentagon can walk away from the contract and stop using Claude if they want to, there's no dispute there. What the Pentagon wants is to force Anthropic into a new set of terms which cannot be refused.