The structural consequence of Anthropic's standoff with the Pentagon is not that autonomous weapons are off the table — it is that a different vendor fills the table. Palantir's position as the intermediary caught between Anthropic and the Pentagon was always transitional: Karp's public signal that the company will integrate with other large language models confirms that Palantir's military AI roadmap no longer depends on any provider unwilling to accept DoD contract terms. The companies that drew ethical lines are now outside the procurement perimeter. Palantir is inside it, and…