The Month AI Woke Up

Today on the AI Daily Brief, the month AI woke up. Before that in the headlines, the latest on Anthropic versus the US government. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, AIUC, Blitzy, and Scrunch. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe to another podcast. To learn about sponsoring the show or really anything else about the show, check out aidailybrief.ai. One of the things, of course, we've been talking about a lot is our Clawcamp and our Enterprise Claw programs. Clawcamp is an always free self directed program. Enterprise Claw is an upcoming paid training program led by Nufar Gaspar. Registration is open for that right now, and we'll close at the end of the week. You can find out more at enterpriseclaw.ai or, again, just from aidailybrief.ai. Now with that out of the way, let's catch up with Anthropic. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. I said over the weekend as we were covering the Anthropic Pentagon story that we were probably gonna have quite a few updates on this one 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 HEGSETH took on a new light over the weekend as The US and Israel launched preemptive strikes on Iran. Now while some thought that maybe this made that 05:01PM 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 been approved for use in classified settings. TLDR, in spite of some of the chatter, it doesn't actually appear that the Pentagon hot swapped AI models on the Friday night before an operation. As the president said on Friday, there is a six month phase out period where anthropic's tech will remain in military use. Still for some, all of …