The deal is in contrast to Anthropic and OpenAI who wanted additional restrictions regarding the use of their models for autonomous weapon control and domestic mass surveillance. The US government agreed to these terms in the case of OpenAI [0], yet publicly denounced Anthropic for wanting the same thing [1].
[0] https://openai.com/de-DE/index/our-agreement-with-the-depart...
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-...