From the Department of You-Can't-Make-This-Up:

After a heated back-and-forth between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department's leading artificial intelligence supplier Anthropic over the firm's insistence that its systems not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous warfare, President Donald Trump banned the government's use of Anthropic's Claude AI tool.

A few hours later, the United States attacked Iran — reportedly with the help of Claude.

Among the first casualties was an elementary school where more than 165 people, mostly kids, were reported killed, a school adjacent to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base. Claude is being used in part for "target identification," leading to questions about whether it was used in this strike and if so, how its judgment was off. Meanwhile, fake AI-edited videos and other images regarding that incident and others went viral, a new iteration of the fog of war.

After blacklisting Anthropic, Hegseth signed a deal with OpenAI, whose AI systems the government had considered........

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