On February 28, 2026, U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, killing more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. A Pentagon investigation, reported by Bloomberg, found that overreliance on Palantir’s Maven AI targeting system—which compressed target-list preparation into minutes and was not trained to flag outdated or inconsistent intelligence—combined with stale intelligence, outdated satellite imagery, and civilian-harm review units cut by roughly 90%, contributed to a cascade of failures in the military’s targeting process. Palantir said it is not responsible for the underlying data or for identifying intelligence deficiencies, and that there is no evidence its software was at fault.