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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Ed Pilkington

US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban

Anthropic Claude AI chatbot.
Anthropic Claude AI chatbot. Photograph: GK Images/Alamy

The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.

The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations.

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