{"id":420949,"date":"2026-03-01T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/trump-banned-anthropic-hours-later-us-military-used-its-claude-ai-in-iran-strikes-report-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:55:20","slug":"trump-banned-anthropic-hours-later-us-military-used-its-claude-ai-in-iran-strikes-report-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/trump-banned-anthropic-hours-later-us-military-used-its-claude-ai-in-iran-strikes-report-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump banned Anthropic \u2014 hours later, US military used its Claude AI in Iran strikes: Report &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-0\">\n<p>US government used the AI tools from Anthropic during the air attack launched on Iran just hours after declaring that it will stop using technology from the AI startup. As per a report by the Wall Streeet Journal, Commands around the world including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East used Anthropic&#8217;s Claude AI during the Iran attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-1\">\n<p>Reportedly, the command used Anthropic&#8217;s AI for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios. Prior to the Iran attack, another WSJ report had revealed that Anthropic&#8217;s AI was also used by the Pentagon during the capture of Venzuela president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-2\">\n<p>The report noted that the use of Claude in high-profile missions is among the reasons why US administration had said that it would take six months to phase out the technology from the AI startup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-3\">\n<p>In a Truth Social post about ending the deal with Anthropic, US President Donald Trump had gone on to call the company \u2018leftwing nut jobs\u2019 and \u2018woke\u2019 while claiming that \u2018their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-4\">\n<p>Trump had directed all federal agencies in the US to \u2018immediately cease\u2019 using Anthropic technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-5\">\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need it, we don\u2019t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic\u2019s products, at various levels\u201d he wrote<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-6\">\n<h2>US and Anthropic feud over AI safety: <\/h2>\n<p>Pentagon and Anthropic had been arguing for months over how the company&#8217;s AI models are used in national defence. The AI startup said that it had allowed US DoD to use Anthropic for purposes with two exceptions: mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-7\">\n<p>Anthropic has also challenged US&#8217; designation of the company as a \u2018supply chain risk\u2019 will be challenged in court. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-8\">\n<p>\u201cDesignating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action\u2014one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company. We are deeply saddened by these developments. As the first frontier AI company to deploy models in the US government\u2019s classified networks, Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.\u201d the company wrote in a blogpost <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-9\">\n<p>\u201cWe believe this designation would both be legally unsound and set a dangerous precedent for any American company that negotiates with the government.\u201d it added<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US government used the AI tools from Anthropic during the air attack launched on Iran just hours after declaring that it will stop using technology from the AI startup. As per a report by the Wall Streeet Journal, Commands around the world including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East used Anthropic&#8217;s Claude AI during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46132,12702,188,183,185,186,3509,3388,46128,46131,798,46129,46133,187,184,189,150,182,190,5774,46130],"class_list":["post-420949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-anthropic","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-donald-trump","tag-dubai","tag-dubai-news","tag-dubai-news-today","tag-iran","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-us-news","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology","tag-uae","tag-uae-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420967,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420949\/revisions\/420967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}