Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly? (opens in new tab)

Orbit is a glass castle. There's a very good reason we don't just cram everything that's valuable into LEO.

Satellite killers are cheap and effective for nation states, if anyone ever lifts to orbit.

Should we really buy the many months of switching difficulty argument? Surely the main API surface is a HTTP API like ChatCompletions? If it's the exact shape of Anthropic's API, the difference is surely minor. There are likely up to 2 API surfaces, that's it. If the OpenAI model APIs are more flexible (esp. with the new 1M context of GPT-5.4), then it should have little difficulty adapting. Then there is LiteLLM and similar that make it even easier, half of their tooling should be using something that abstracts like that anyway. Yes it needs evals and prompt engineering work to optimise it, but they should be used to that by now. Presumably they could even clean-room fine-tune an OpenAI model to match the same Claude shape with low loss. So I don't buy it.

As is pointed out in my links, they are using Palantir's solution which Palantir has built around Claude AI (including custom agents/chatbots/etc.)

After Trump's tantrum with Anthropic, no doubt Palantir will be switching to OpenAI based models/agents/chatbots.

From the pov of data analysis and inference, they should be comparable though Anthropic's AI predictions _might_ be better than OpenAI's (maybe the reason why Palantir chose them in the first place).

If you don’t think the current US administration would gladly slaughter 30k people in a matter of days for protesting if they thought they could could get away with it, you’re not paying attention.

Iran isn't being bombed because the leadership is nasty (terrorist regime). They are being bombed because they are s rival power to Greater Israel expansion, and they are a major oil exporter that doesn't use $US.

The leader of Syria is a Sunni terrorist but he stays in place because he blocks arms shipments through Syria from Iran to Hezbollah. That suits Israel. Israel doesn't care how the Syrian leader treats his own people so long as he continues to disallow arms to Hezbollah from Iran. And the USA goes along with whatever Israel wants.

It has nothing to do with how the Iranian regime treats its own people. Just look at how the Saudi regime treats its people.

Meanwhile the US is lifting sanctions on Russian oil while Russia bombs Ukraine. Turns out peace or democracy is not what they care about, it is regional dominance for Israel.

Anthropic did the deal with Palantir and was begging the government to use their technology to “fight authoritarianism”, are you insinuating that they shouldn’t be held morally accountable for these business decisions?