Mythos Turns Anthropic’s Safety Line Into a Procurement Fight

The dispute establishes a hard lesson for model labs that sell into national security: restrictions are treated as contract terms until the buyer decides they are strategic obstruction. Security Boulevard reported that the conflict traces back to a DoD contract with explicit limits on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal systems, followed by a military push to remove those limits for lawful use . That sequence turns safety policy into leverage, and leverage into a vendor-selection test. Labs that want defense money are being taught to…