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The Safety Company at War: Claude in the Largest AI-Assisted Military Strike

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Introduction

On the same day that President Trump announced all federal agencies must immediately stop using Anthropic's AI, the Pentagon was using Anthropic's AI to help prosecute the largest air campaign the United States had launched in years.

That sentence is not a metaphor or an editorial exaggeration. It...

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