Exclusive | Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid - WSJ

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The Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI via a Palantir contract in the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro, signaling growing AI adoption in defense.

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