Great report on the Iran schoolhouse massacre that supposedly used a system called Maven (not Claude):
And details always matter but I’m just going to lump Maven, Claude, Thiel, Anthropic, Palantir, Hegseth, Karp, and this entire admin into one evil basket. The main point I think is it’s nuts how much wholesale analysis is being offloaded onto systems, no matter if it’s AI or some other automation.
#IranWar #Maven #Palantir #ScarletDragon #DavidKarp #ShajarehTayyebeh
"...asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy, and whether the Pentagon’s chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality. Almost none of this had any relationship to reality. The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying #ai #iranwar #palantir #maven
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#ContinuousIntegration #Testing #Java #GitHub #JUnit #Gradle #Maven
⬆️ >> #AI got the blame for #Iran school bombing…
Excellent example of how a #languageModel is NOT the same as #worldModel or #realTime #realWorld data.
The #Maven system that #Palantir embedded into the #US military infrastructure relies on BOTH #LLM and #realTime #realWorld data, but it cannot prevent catastrophes when there is a failure in either or both of them.
In this case, it was #staleData at the very least— possibly a faulty/imprecise language model as well.
#EpicFury runs on a system called #Maven which #Google abandoned 8 yrs ago because of employee protests.
#PeterThiel took it over and built it into a military targeting infrastructure.
A Defense Intelligence database classified the #Minab building as a military facility, but failed to update when it was separated from the adjacent #IRGC compound 10 YEARS ago!
Meanwhile #Palantir speeded up Maven and embedded it into #US military infrastructure with deadly consequences
"The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven."
"American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12"
"Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike."
Was that change really a patch—or did you just break someone’s build? Manual #SemVer is fragile, especially in growing teams. @JagoVreede enforces it with code.
Make your versions trustworthy again and avoid hidden breaking changes: https://javapro.io/2026/03/26/semantic-versioning-done-automatically/
7 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/google-ceo-drones-ai-war-surveillance
(Note: Employee revolts at #Microsoft, #Amazon and #Google in the late 2010s helped kept those Capitalists out of the military market. Google ended up relinquishing the #Maven contract in 2018, with #Palantir war profiteering in 2024. )
Source: “Kill-Chain”
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain
#Ai #Claude #Google #Iran
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Minab #techWorkers
ASF Maven 3.10.x lineage is shaping, with major change of using Resolver 2.x (same as in Maven 4) with it, and it remains still Java 8 baseline as Maven 3.9.x was (Maven 4 is Java 17). Purpose is to let users have all the improvements done in Resolver 2.x, without the hassle of going for major Maven upgrade.
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