This absolutely did not kill them. I’ve been dealing with federal procurement, including ATOs for DoD, for years, and 99% of companies never even remotely interact with it. Yes, there’s a large number that do, especially among Fortune 500s and up, but the actual percentage of companies who have military contracts is tiny. This was meant to intimidate them into compliance, but this doesn’t make them any less viable than AIaaS already is or isn’t.
no company wants to become a supply chain risk to potential customers who might have a DoD supplier somewhere down the supply chain
The order is actually much narrow than that; it only applies to companies who directly have contracts with the military.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I think the order actually is even more narrow than that in that it only deals with the part of the business that they do that has to deal that has to do with actual sensitive stuff that is, if the anthropic CEO is to be believed.