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This article examines how Claude was falsely blamed for a school bombing in Iran, while the real culprit was Palantir's Maven Smart System — a military targeting infrastructure built over years.
•Operation Epic Fury (Feb 28, 2026) struck a primary school in Minab, Iran, killing 175–180 people, mostly girls aged 7–12
•The targeting ran on Maven, a Palantir-built system integrating satellite imagery, signals intelligence, and sensor data — not a language model
•The actual failure was an outdated Defense Intelligence Agency database that hadn't classified the building as a school since at least 2016
•Maven evolved from Project Maven (2017), aiming to compress kill chains: by 2024, the goal was 1,000 targeting decisions per hour (3.6 seconds each)
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The author argues LLMs act as a 'charismatic technology' that captures public attention and distorts discourse away from older, more consequential systems like Maven
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