Today on the AI Daily Brief, the month AI woke up.

Before that in the headlines, the latest on Anthropic versus the U.S. government.

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in the weeks to come. And indeed, that is certainly the case. The conflict between Anthropic and the

Pentagon slash White House slash Trump slash Heggseth took on a new light over the weekend as the U.S.

and Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran. Now, while some thought that maybe this made that

501 p.m. deadline on Friday not arbitrary,

and instead driven by the Pentagon's need for an approved and operational AI system in place

ahead of the Saturday operation, but as per Wall Street Journal reports, Anthropics technology

ended up being used in the strikes despite being declared a supply chain risk hours earlier.

Sources said that Claude was used to analyze intelligence,

help select targets, and carry out battlefield simulations.

To be clear, there are no suggestions that Claude piloted fully autonomous weapons,

but the Pentagon has confirmed that this was the first time

that autonomous Lucas Kamikaze drones were deployed in an active mission.

Their use highlights that autonomous weaponry is part of

modern warfare already and doesn't require the use of frontier LLMs. Additionally, despite OpenAI signing a

new deal on Friday, that company's models were not used in the attack. Katrina Mulligan, OpenAI's head

of national security partnerships, said that that wouldn't have been possible as the models haven't yet

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