Wow what an absolute nothingburger of an article.
Someone at the Pentagon may have used Claude (maybe directly or maybe indirectly through a Palantir tool), to do something that may have had something to do with a really large military operation that involved possibly tens of thousands of people. Maybe. We don’t know. Did I say maybe?
Amazing. The rest of the article reads like filler from a college freshman when you’re required to meet a word count quota. A bunch of random factoids strung together.
I bet they used Claude to write this stuff.
What for? I can't believe they'd feed classified intel into it for suggestions (despite Hegseth saying everyone should embrace AI - I don't think things in the Pentagon are that bad just yet).
And do they have their own sandboxed version via Palantir?
Maybe it's something a lot more benign like it helped draft some of the press releases? /s
Cynically speaking, I think it was done to quash Anthropic's humanist marketing stance and bring them back to the negotiation table for DoD contracts. Even if only to drive the cost of their OpenAI contracts down by forcing their competitor to cast a bid.