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The model the White House banned processes targeting hours later

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Within hours of the White House declaring it would end federal use of Anthropic's Claude, USCENTCOM deployed those same tools in a major air attack on Iran, with Claude processing intercepts, imagery and signals intelligence for targeting.

Reporting date: 2026-03-02 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 2, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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The Pentagon demands unrestricted access and Anthropic refuses

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The model the White House banned processes targeting hours later
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Reporting date: 2026-03-02
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-02-banned-model-does-the-targeting
Claim: Within hours of the White House declaring it would end federal use of Anthropic's Claude, USCENTCOM deployed those same tools in a major air attack on Iran, with Claude processing intercepts, imagery and signals intelligence for targeting.
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- Welcome to March 2, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-2-2026
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