Only hours after President Donald Trump announced that federal agencies should sever all ties with Anthropic and discontinue use of its AI systems, the US military reportedly continued deploying the company’s Claude model in active operations against Iran.

Claude was used during the large-scale joint US–Israel bombardment that began on Saturday, underscoring how deeply embedded advanced AI tools have become within US defense workflows. The development showcases the structural difficulty of rapidly removing such systems from mission-critical environments once they are integrated into operational planning cycles.

According to recent reports, military commands relied on Claude for intelligence analysis, support in target selection, and battlefield simulations linked to the strikes.

Article continues at link below:

https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-forces-used-claude-iran-strikes