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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson about her new book, Project Maven, and the secret campaign within the Pentagon to bring AI into combat.

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Project Maven is the Pentagon's flagship artificial intelligence program, launched in 2017 as a narrow experiment.

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AI is being increasingly used by the US military - and Project Maven is at its heart. An investigation by The Independent and conflict monitoring group Airwars has found that Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi, a ...

AI is being increasingly used by the US military - and Project Maven is at its heart. An investigation by The Independent and conflict monitoring group Airwars has found that Abdul-Rahman al-Rawi, a ...

An ongoing and heated dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is raising new questions about how the startup’s technology is actually used inside the US military. In late February, Anthropic ...

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US Army Captain with the National Guard Bureau seen using the Maven Smart System in Arlington, Virginia in February 2026. (National Guard Bureau/Master Sgt. Whitney Hughes) The US Marine Corps (USMC) ...