Pentagon Used Anthropic's Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid

I also struggle to think of anything a current LLM could contribute which would be of direct and significant military value exceeding the dedicated analysis and mission planning tools intelligence experts already use to develop assessments. That leaves indirect clerical usage like "draft a memo", "create a spreadsheet" or "search documents for..." which most people would find unremarkable.

Someone at the Pentagon may have used Claude (maybe directly or maybe indirectly through a Palantir tool), to do something that may have had something to do with a really large military operation that involved possibly tens of thousands of people. Maybe. We don’t know. Did I say maybe?

Amazing. The rest of the article reads like filler from a college freshman when you’re required to meet a word count quota. A bunch of random factoids strung together.

I bet they used Claude to write this stuff.

And do they have their own sandboxed version via Palantir?

Maybe it's something a lot more benign like it helped draft some of the press releases? /s