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This week, the Pentagon is considering cutting business ties with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic after the company declined to allow its chatbot, Claude, to be used for certain military applications, including weapons development.

At the same time,

The Wall Street Journal reports that Claude was used in a U.S.

operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, claims Anthropic has not confirmed and has declined to discuss publicly.

Meanwhile, outside military and intelligence circles, the same tool is being used for far less dramatic but still consequential purposes.

A man in New York reportedly used Claude to challenge a nearly $200,000 hospital bill and negotiated most of it away.

A romance novelist in South Africa has said she used it to help publish more than 200 novels in a single year.

So what exactly is this system capable of?