AI tool Claude helped capture Venezuelan dictator Maduro in US military raid operation: report

The U.S. subject utilized Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence instrumentality Claude during the cognition that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, according to a report.

Last month, U.S. peculiar operations forces captured Maduro and his wife, who were brought to the U.S. to look sweeping narcotics charges.

Claude was deployed done Anthropic’s concern with information institution Palantir Technologies, whose tools are wide utilized by the Defense Department and national instrumentality enforcement, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited radical acquainted with the matter.

"We cannot remark connected whether Claude, oregon immoderate different AI model, was utilized for immoderate circumstantial operation, classified oregon otherwise," an Anthropic spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "Any usage of Claude — whether successful the backstage assemblage oregon crossed authorities — is required to comply with our Usage Policies, which govern however Claude tin beryllium deployed. We enactment intimately with our partners to guarantee compliance."

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Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted, arsenic helium heads towards the Daniel Patrick Manhattan United States Courthouse for an archetypal quality to look U.S. national charges including narco-terrorism, conspiracy, cause trafficking, wealth laundering and others successful New York City, U.S., January 5, 2026.  (Adam Gray/Reuters)

Anthropic’s usage guidelines prohibit Claude from being utilized for violence, weapons development, oregon surveillance.

A root acquainted with the substance told Fox News Digital that Anthropic has visibility into classified and unclassified usage and has assurance that each usage has been successful enactment with Anthropic’s usage policy, arsenic good arsenic its partners’ ain compliance policies.

Reached by Fox News Digital, the Department of War declined to comment.

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The U.S. subject reportedly utilized Anthropic’s AI instrumentality Claude during the cognition that captured Venezuelan person Nicolás Maduro. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

Anthropic was the archetypal AI exemplary developer to beryllium utilized successful classified operations by the Department of War, according to the Journal.

Anthropic has raised concerns astir however Claude tin beryllium utilized by the Pentagon, prompting officials wrong the Trump medication to see canceling its declaration worthy up to $200 million, which was awarded past summer, the insubstantial reported.

The AI tools tin beryllium utilized for everything from summarizing documents to controlling autonomous drones, the outlet noted.

The Trump medication has prioritized AI development, and successful December War Secretary Pete Hegseth said "the aboriginal of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."

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Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence exemplary Claude was reportedly utilized successful a classified U.S. subject cognition targeting Nicolás Maduro. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)

"As technologies advance, truthful bash our adversaries," helium said. "But present astatine the War Department, we are not sitting idly by."