Trump just ordered that Anthropic be banned, and a few hours later the US military used the company's AI tools in a strike operation in the Middle East.

Just hours after President Trump announced that the federal government would stop using the artificial intelligence tools from Anthropic, the US military launched a massive airstrike on Iran using the same set of tools. Insiders confirmed that global US military command centers, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, were using Anthropic's Claude AI tool. The Central Command refused to comment on the specific systems used in the operation against Iran. These sources indicated that despite growing tensions between the company and the Pentagon, the US military Central Command continued to use this tool for intelligence assessment, target identification, and combat scenario simulation, highlighting the deep integration of AI tools into military operations. Claude was previously used in major tasks such as the capture of Venezuelan President Maduro by the US military, explaining why the government stated that it would take six months to gradually phase out the technology - considering that data analysis companies like Palantir are also using it, the replacement process is very complex. With the deteriorating relationship between Anthropic and the Pentagon, the US Department of Defense has reached an agreement with competitors to use products from OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, and xAI under Elon Musk in sensitive scenarios. AI experts say that it will still take several months to replace Claude with other models.