Palantir AI targeting platform used by the U.S. military
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Maven Smart System is Palantir's AI targeting platform for the U.S. military. It began under a $480M contract in May 2024, its ceiling rose to nearly $1.3B through 2029 in May 2025, and in March 2026 the Pentagon made it a program of record, already the main AI system for U.S. strikes on Iran, Reuters reported. Anthropic's Claude was embedded in it during the Iran campaign. Bloomberg found that the Minab school, wrongly catalogued as a military site, was fed into Maven and came out as a recommended day-one target; the strike killed more than 150 people, at least 123 of them children.
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Maven, powered by Claude, suggested hundreds of targets, issued precise location coordinates, and prioritized those targets according to importance
uses multiple prompts and workflows that were built using Anthropic's Claude code
is already the primary AI operating system for the U.S. military, which has carried out thousands of targeted strikes against Iran over the last three weeks
DOD revealed its decision to increase that contract ceiling for Palantir's MSS to nearly $1.3 billion through 2029.
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