The US military says AI tools played a key role in their operations against Iran.

U.S. Military Deploys AI to Process 'Twice the Scale' of Iraq War Data in Iran Strikes

The U.S. military is leaning hard on artificial intelligence to make sense of the firehose of data coming out of its operations against Iran. According to U.S. Central Command, a bunch of AI tools are being used to rapidly process information since the strikes kicked off last week. And we're talking a lot of data—the U.S. has already hit more than 2,000 targets, with 1,000 of those happening in just the first 24 hours.

To put that in perspective, General Brad Cooper, the head of CENTCOM, said the sheer size of this operation is almost "twice" what the U.S. dealt with during the 2003 Iraq campaign. So yeah, it's massive.

So how are they handling all this information? Captain Timothy Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesperson, explained that AI is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the front end. It's sifting through incoming data, doing that initial triage, so human analysts can focus on the more complicated stuff—like verifying intel and doing deep-dive analysis.

One of the key pieces of tech in the mix? Sources say it's the Maven Smart System, a digital mission control platform. The military's been open about this one before—it's built by Palantir Technologies, and it's designed to pull in data from over 150 different sources. And here's a detail that might catch the attention of the crypto crowd: among the large language models running on the system is Anthropic's Claude. So yeah, AI isn't just changing how we trade—it's changing how wars are fought.