US used Anthropic’s Claude AI in Venezuela raid to capture Nicolas Maduro: Report

The US military used Claude, the artificial intelligence model developed by a San Francisco-based company, Anthropic, in the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

According to the sources quoted in the report, Claude’s deployment was made possible through Anthropic’s partnership with data firm Palantir Technologies, whose platforms are widely used by the Defence Department and federal law enforcement.