What the 2018 Project Maven exit established was not a principle — it was a pressure threshold. Google retreated when employee opposition reached a volume that created reputational exposure. The current contract confirms that threshold has moved: , and the explicit contractual language surrendering oversight is the institutional record of that shift. The deal does not just authorize military AI use — it formalizes Google's position that what happens to its models inside classified environments is no longer its concern. That is a different kind…