Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare; and Bloomberg reporter wwnorton.com/books/project-m…
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Jun 16
Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is a Financial Times “best title of the year so far”
“Best summer books of 2026: Technology” — Financial Times
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Jun 10
My book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is among Amazon’s top 20 “Best Nonfiction Books of 2026 So Far” list, out today.
More here: wwnorton.com/books/project-m…
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Jun 10
“Look, we don’t have access to, we don’t know exactly how these models were used,” Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, told Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang when asked whether his company’s AI tool Claude played a role in the Iran school strike.
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Jun 10
“There’s a lot of governance pieces that, in my opinion, are missing,” Jack Shanahan, ret US general and former director of Project Maven, the Pentagon effort that birthed Maven Smart System, told a Stanford University workshop devoted to the future of decision-making last week.
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Jun 10
“If you make more decisions rather than the right decisions, you may have a very flawed decision-making process,” Shanahan said, warning that integrating Claude into Maven Smart System could lead to unexpected impacts and dilute the role of human judgment.
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Jun 4
New from @business:
IBM and AT&T’s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers, and the companies concealed those intrusions from the US government in violation of the law, says a lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official.
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I will be discussing the future of AI-enabled decision-making systems and my book PROJECT MAVEN on Wednesday at Stanford University.
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May 31
Finally got around to reading @KatrinaManson’s book on Project Maven. I might be a nerd about these things, but this is one of the best, most unputdownable books I’ve read in a very, very long time. Brilliant work🫡
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May 29
Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare is on The Economist’s list of “The best books of 2026 so far”
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May 29
Sneak peek of @MattCampbell’s new book “The Man Who Stole the Gods” — which publishes next week. Looking forward to reading.
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May 21
JUST OUT: The Pentagon is testing AI models to see which are most effective and favored by 25 of the department’s “power users,” as the US military races to find alternatives to Anthropic’s Claude, according to a senior defense official.
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May 21
As part of the new testing effort, models from OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are among those being examined in a digital platform separate from the Maven Smart System, according to the official, who said the Pentagon may consider making the final evaluation public.
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May 21
Initial tests show the models respond differently to the same queries or so-called prompts, and that varying the prompts across models has helped get the best out of them, said the official, who declined to share metrics or interim rankings.
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TOMORROW | CSIS Intelligence, National Security, & Technology Department expert @EmilyHardingDC will sit down with Bloomberg reporter @KatrinaManson to discuss her new book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare.
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May 19
So looking forward to reading this @bhgreeley
May 19
Welp: multiple copies, facing out. In the business section. It’s too hot to go to the midtown B&N, so order yours wherever you like here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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May 18
Thank you @economist for the appreciation for my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
May 16
“This is the Microsoft Windows of warfighting.” Register for free to learn why a new book about the Maven Smart System is one of the most important books on war and technology in many years economist.com/culture/2026/0…
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May 15
The Economist calls my book Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare “one of the most important books on war and technology in many years” and “a scintillating account”
May 14
Maven not only identifies targets—it tells commanders how to attack them, too economist.com/culture/2026/0…
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Join us for this great talk on Thursday with Katrina Manson who has written a new book on AI, the Pentagon and Palantir - eventbrite.co.uk/e/project-m…
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