[instrumental cold open] June twenty twenty four Pentagon inks Anthropic, signs the contract up to two hundred million dollars Claude becomes the first frontier mind deployed on classified military designs intel analysis ops planning cyber defense cold targeting as American as the apple pie our soldiers defend January third, twenty twenty six Claude is riding in the system on the op that bagged Maduro deep in Venezuela’s shadows first recorded, first reported frontier model in the war zone black‑box brain inside the wire classified and in the fire it passes largely unnoticed no one out there’s really knowing public still don’t understand Claude is humming in the machine as American as apple pie February twenty seventh, twenty twenty six one dawn before Epic Fury lifts Dario hits the Pentagon we cannot in good conscience accede to your request the line is drawn here now after eighteen months of merge and build after Venezuela after the model’s already reading the streams pulling the target lists drafting the legal fig leaves the next morning Epic Fury lights the sky Claude is still running inside the stack one thousand targets in the first twenty four hours as American as apple pie Dario Amodei on CBS News locked on cam, coolly sparring with the state, with the story that’s the most American thing in the world we are patriots in everything we’ve done right here we have stood up for the values of this country two sources whisper to CBS News Claude was wired into the strike on Iran Anthropic brass sent their sorrow to the Pentagon over the “misunderstanding” about Anthropic’s hand in the action the line got drawn after the weapon was already humming as American as apple pie
