Stop and think for two seconds...

"Hey, we just built the ultimate hacker, you know those things that governments have a really hard time getting and keeping enough of. You know, if the state protects us we'll make these things even better and we'll let you run as many of them as you want in times of war"

I mean, if I were a company that just committed about a billion felonies, this is exactly what I would be doing. In fact, this is why we saw Mythos get shutdown and OpenAI didn't earlier this year. Political power is power.