Two sources familiar with the U.S. military’s use of artificial intelligence confirm that the U.S. used Anthropic’s Claude AI model over weekend for the attack on Iran — and is still using it. The Pentagon has not said exactly how the AI tool is being deployed, but it’s being used despite a government-wide ban on the technology announced after a dispute last week with the Pentagon. The conflict centered around Anthropic’s push for guardrails that would explicitly prevent the military from using Claude to conduct mass surveillance on Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons. Its use in the Iran war was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Full report : Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud.