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The U.S. military is investigating whether AI played a role in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed at least 175 people, mostly children. Preliminary findings point to outdated targeting data, but questions persist about Anthropic's Claude AI, which the Pentagon uses for target selection despite designating the company a supply chain risk over its refusal to remove guardrails against autonomous weapons.
Defense officials confirm the US military is using AI chatbots like Claude to analyze intelligence and prioritize targets in Iran, striking 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours. The technology adds a conversational layer to Project Maven, but lawmakers are calling for stricter oversight as concerns grow about human judgment in war and the reliability of AI-powered decision support systems.
Anthropic unveiled the Anthropic Institute, a new research body combining three existing teams to study how AI will reshape jobs, economies, and governance. The announcement comes as the company fights a Pentagon blacklist, triples its policy team, and opens its first Washington D.C. office this spring under new leadership.
AI company Anthropic is launching operations in Australia and New Zealand with a Sydney office opening in coming weeks. Australia ranks fourth globally in Claude.ai usage relative to population. The expansion comes as Anthropic battles the Trump administration over a supply-chain risk designation that could cost the company billions in revenue.
The Pentagon is actively building alternatives to replace Anthropic's AI technology after their $200 million contract collapsed over usage restrictions. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, typically reserved for foreign adversaries, while the Trump administration defends the decision in court as a matter of national security.
Google is rolling out Gemini AI agents across the Pentagon's 3 million-strong workforce to automate routine administrative tasks on unclassified networks. The expansion comes as the Defense Department rapidly broadens its AI partnerships following its contentious split with Anthropic, which was designated a supply chain risk after refusing to remove guardrails on autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
Open-source maintainers face an unprecedented wave of AI-generated security reports flooding their inboxes. While tools like Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 discovered over 500 zero-days in initial testing, the cURL project saw legitimate bug reports drop to just 5% as AI slop overwhelms volunteer teams. Some projects have shut down bug bounty programs entirely, while others search for ways to filter quality submissions from automated noise.
Swedish legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in Series D funding led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55 billion in just five months. The company plans aggressive US expansion with new offices in Houston and Chicago, targeting 300 US employees by year-end as competition with Harvey intensifies in the booming AI legaltech market.
The White House is preparing an executive order to formalize President Trump's directive removing Anthropic's AI technology from government agencies. The move escalates a dispute over military use restrictions and follows the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation. Anthropic has filed a lawsuit claiming the administration is retaliating against First Amendment-protected speech.
Anthropic executives revealed that the Pentagon's national security blacklisting could slash the AI firm's 2026 revenue by multiple billions of dollars. The company filed a lawsuit to block the designation after losing over $100 million in contracts and facing inquiries from more than 100 enterprise customers expressing concern about associating with the embattled AI company.
Anthropic introduced Code Review, a multi-agent system that analyzes GitHub pull requests for bugs, security vulnerabilities, and logic errors. Available for Claude Code enterprise customers, the tool costs $15-25 per review and addresses the bottleneck created by AI tools generating code faster than humans can review it. Internal testing shows 84% of large pull requests contain issues.
Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork, an agentic AI feature built with Anthropic's Claude technology that can autonomously complete tasks across Microsoft 365 apps. The tool can create spreadsheets, run reports, and manage calendars without human supervision. It's rolling out as a research preview to select customers, with broader availability planned through the Frontier program later this month.
Microsoft confirmed its new premium tier Microsoft 365 E7 will launch May 1 at $99 per user per month, marking a 65% jump from E5. The AI-focused software bundle includes Copilot, Agent 365 for managing AI agents, and enterprise security tools. But Gartner questions the value, noting only a 13.2% discount versus buying components separately.
New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic reveals that large language models can unmask anonymous social media accounts with alarming precision. The study successfully identified 68 percent of pseudonymous users with 90 percent accuracy, fundamentally challenging assumptions about online privacy. Researchers warn that AI deanonymization could enable surveillance of activists, highly personalized scams, and hyper-targeted advertising.
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's robotics lead, resigned after the company's controversial Pentagon deal. She criticized the rushed agreement for lacking proper guardrails on surveillance without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization. The departure highlights growing tensions over responsible AI use in national security, as ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295% following the announcement.
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