Anthropic’s Claude is helping the US military choose targets to strike in Iran, but responsibility for the accuracy, strategy and ethics of the decisions rests with humans.

The focus on direct commissions expands on a program that saw four Silicon Valley executives join as lieutenant colonels last year.

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades.

The vast network of bombers, fighter jets, drones, missile defenses and surveillance platforms forms the backbone of the US military campaign against Iran under Operation Epic Fury.

Two high-tech surveillance aircraft made a stopover in Australia just days after the Trump administration began bombing Iran, but officials are refusing to discuss details of the visit.

In contract negotiations between senior Defense Department officials and leaders from AI giant Anthropic in December, the company agreed to allow the U.S. government to use its AI systems for missile ...

Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.