AI at war: Five things to know about Project Maven

A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at the center of the U.S. strikes against Iran and potentially one of the most consequential transformations of modern warfare. For now, this capability is supplied by Anthropic's Claude — though that arrangement is coming to a bitter end after the Pentagon bristled at the AI lab's demand that its model not be used for fully automated strikes or the tracking of U.S. citizens. "This is a have, have-not world," he said at a recent Palantir event, arguing that it was important for the West to achieve capabilities the rest of the world lacked.