The U.S. attacks on Iran have unfolded at unprecedented speed and precision.

The Department of War launched Operation Epic Fury, the most lethal, most complex, and most precise aerial operation in history.

That's thanks in part to a cutting-edge weapon never before deployed on this scale,

artificial intelligence.

Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth has stressed the creation of, quote, an AI-first warfighting force.

And the tech the Pentagon has relied on most heavily is Anthropics.

But our colleague Keech H Hege says there's irony in the fact that the Pentagon has used

Anthropics Claude in Iran.

So literally hours before those strikes were ordered, the president directed the federal

government to stop working with Anthropic.

President Trump also called Anthropic, quote, left-wing nut jobs.

The Trump administration is trying to cancel its contracts with Anthropic

and to designate it as a security threat that no federal agency can do business with.

Yesterday, Anthropic struck back, suing the administration. At the heart of

the dispute, which has been going on for months, is a fight over values and how AI can be used in

warfare. And you've been reporting on this saga, right, between the Anthropic, the Pentagon.

How would you characterize the drama here?

It's completely unprecedented.

I've been asking people around in D.C. over the last week, have you ever seen anything like this,

where a vendor to the U.S. government became this public punching bag in this way. And no one can

think of an example. I think it really shows us that AI is a different kind of technology, right?

It asks new questions of our society that we just have not worked out yet.

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