[jim33442]

Anthropic can certainly make the call to deny access this way, but then the US govt can choose not to make contracts with Anthropic. So what's the issue?

[gentoo]

The whole reason this is a story is that the government won't just refuse to contract, it will put the equivalent of soft sanctions on the company because Anthropic refuses to contract.

[jim33442]

The sanction is only that the federal govt won't do contracts with them. This doesn't stop Anthropic from doing business with anyone else.