Project Maven

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. America's first AI-fueled war is unfolding right now. Over the last three weeks, the U.S. and Israel have launched strikes against Iran, hitting a thousand targets in the first 24 hours alone - nearly double the scale of the 2003…

If Donald Trump says he’s ready for peace with Iran, why is the Pentagon planning to deploy thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East? The Department of Defense is plotting to deploy 3,000 members of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, two U.S. officials told…

Iranian authorities have said there is no direct or indirect contact with United States President Donald Trump. Trump had announced that he has directed the Department of Defense to defer all airstrikes targeting Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period. He attributed his decision the “success” of…

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Anthropic cannot manipulate its generative AI model Claude once the US military has it running, an executive wrote in a court filing on Friday. The statement was made in response to accusations from the Trump administration about the company potentially tampering with its AI tools during war. “Anthropic has never…

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Project Maven began in 2017 as a tool to scour footage from drones Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit Project Maven Katrina Manson, W.W. Norton Israel’s military is using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, the US is doing the same in Iran and Ukraine pushes on with smart drones.…

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: As the U.S. and Israeli war extends into its 19th day, we turn now to look at how the U.S. is using artificial intelligence to identify and prioritize targets. The system, known as Project Maven,…

Four U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers are parked at Ben Gurion international airport in Lod, Israel, outside Tel Aviv, on February 25. The U.S. Department of Defense on Saturday identified six service members killed when one of the refueling tankers crashed in Iraq. Photo by Jim Hollander/UPI | License…

Saturday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Amber Smith, a combat veteran and former Deputy Assistant in the Department of Defense, talked about the military. Smith said, “Tell me you know nothing about the military, you know nothing about leadership, you know nothing about morale by some of the stuff I…