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Trump announces AI chatbot ban while Pentagon uses it to prepare Iran attacks
5 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2026 at 10:18 am.
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In the hours leading up to the US attack on Iran, Donald Trump announced that technology company Anthropic would be banned from all work with the federal government. At the same time, Anthropic's artificial intelligence chatbot Claude was reportedly being used by the Pentagon to prepare the attack. FRANCE 24 tech journalist Charlotte Lam gives us her analysis.