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During the first 24 hours of the war in Iran, the United States used Maven Smart System (MSS) to help strike more than 1,000 targets, a tenfold increase over what was possible in the pre-MSS era.

THE MAVEN Smart System is perhaps the most important weapon system you have never heard of. It has spotted Iranian missiles heading for Israel and rocket launchers in Yemen. It has detected migrants ...

Israel Strikes Lebanon Strait of Hormuz Talks Dangers of Widening War The Whiplash Conflict Houthis’ Threats Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close ...

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The veteran journalist Katrina Manson, who now covers defense tech for Bloomberg, spent much of the past few years asking precisely that question.

In the Iran war the Pentagon is using an AI program that is potentially of the most consequential changes in modern warfare — Brendan SMIALOWSKI A Pentagon AI program called Project Maven is at the ...

“The Department of War has issued a letter stating that Palantir’s artificial intelligence platform, Maven Smart System, will become an official program of record, Reuters reported Friday. The ...

The rise of AI warfare speaks to the biggest moral and practical question there is: Who—or what—gets to decide to take a human life? And who bears that cost? In 2018, more than 3,000 Google workers ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Brandyn Brooks, a 15P aviation operations specialist with the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, Task Force CARDINAL, monitors mission systems at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, June 8, 2025.

NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Palantir’s (PLTR.O), opens new tab Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg said in a ...