Claude Targeted Iran While Anthropic's Red Lines Failed

Claude Picked Targets in Iran. Anthropic's Red Lines Never Mattered.

The Pentagon kept Claude identifying targets in Iran even after banning Anthropic. The red lines were never the company's to draw.

On Saturday morning, while Anthropic supporters were downloading Claude to own the Trump administration, the same software was identifying missile coordinates inside Iran. The Maven Smart System, built by Palantir with Claude embedded at its core, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized them by importance. One thousand strikes hit in the first 24 hours. Hours earlier, the president had ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic's technology.

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