Katrina Manson

Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare; and Bloomberg reporter

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🚨BREAKING: “US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike”

“The changes at US Central Command, which haven’t been previously reported, focus on three key areas: refining processes and workflows for refreshing and vetting planned targets, adding new open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement, and making dozens of upgrades to Maven Smart System, the AI-enabled battle-management program made by defense contractor Palantir Technologies Inc., according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss sensitive matters.”

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NEW: US Central Command has made multiple changes to its lethal targeting process and boosted how it uses AI to help vet intelligence following a deadly strike against a school in Minab, Iran, according to US officials and people familiar with matter.

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“The Department of War remains committed to rigorously verifying all intelligence inputs and the responsible integration of emerging technologies to augment service members in making informed and precise operational decisions,” the official said.

[Katrina Manson @KatrinaManson]

NEW: US Central Command has made multiple changes to its lethal targeting process and boosted how it uses AI to help vet intelligence following a deadly strike against a school in Minab, Iran, according to US officials and people familiar with the matter.

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[Katrina Manson @KatrinaManson]

“a well-told and definitive account” —

Prof Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, reviews my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare in the new issue of Foreign Affairs

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Congratulations to @KatrinaManson! The definitive story of how AI warfare has become a reality, PROJECT MAVEN is on the Financial Times's longlist for Business Book of the Year. #BBYA26
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[Katrina Manson @KatrinaManson]

My book “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare” is long-listed for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026

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In September, the Pentagon plans to try something harder still: ejecting multiple drones from a single launcher.

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NEW ON BLOOMBERG: At a Maryland farm proud to say it sells “humanely raised” meat, a small team is cultivating one of the potentially more inhumane products of the artificial intelligence age: autonomous drone swarms.

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[Katrina Manson @KatrinaManson]

The US defense official thinks the drones fell back on old pattern recognition after being trained to identify white Toyota Hiluxes in the desert. Human military commanders rejected the suggested targets, but it’s the kind of mistake the Pentagon wants companies to fix quickly.