All news on the topic: Anthropic

Australia said that an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.

The digital extortion group known as "ShinyHunters" said on Tuesday that it had breached the Federal Bureau of Investigation and stolen data on a ‌huge number of current and former FBI employees.

When local cybersecurity start-up DepthFirst sought artificial intelligence software to help hunt computer bugs, it turned to a Chinese company, not the top U.S. AI labs in its hometown.

FATF warns that one or two people with enough computing power could do work that previously required much larger teams

Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities, the first known example of the company’s AI systems autonomously committing such an act.

A single hacker from Russia, LeakySensey, controls a massive 87,000 IP-wide residential proxy network and earns a fortune.

Leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies are invoking unproven extinction warnings to justify measures that could protect their market position and expand their influence on industry oversight, a Byline Times investigation has found.

OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors to read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, which sometimes include sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned.

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.

China’s spy agency has warned that AI could pose a risk to the country’s political and social security, signalling growing concern in Beijing that rapid advances in the technology could be exploited against the country.

Donald Trump has insisted that the only "control" needed to protect from the threats of Artificial Intelligence is a "strong and smart" President.

ChatGPT boss Sam Altman has warned that the future of AI could go ‘very badly’ if the technology’s rapid progress continues to be developed.

One of the world’s largest AI models has said it blocked an attempt to develop biological weapons using its technology.

A Russia-linked hacker group has used Claude for a large-scale espionage campaign against Ukrainian state structures, military drone manufacturers, and organizations in Europe.

State-run surveillance operations around the world are using Claude to streamline their operations, Anthropic said in a threat report released Thursday.

Anthropic said it has disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its AI models over the past eight months, including conventional weapons development, cyber operations, surveillance, and biological misuse.

Law firm Latham & Watkins has bought its own Nvidia GPU servers and started customising AI models, an expensive and technically demanding set-up that shows how much the technology is changing Big Law’s business model.

The self-appointed good guys of AI are now drawing energy from one of the world’s most controversial data centres.

Earlier this year, we published a major investigation into the DIY chatbot apps cashing in on users’ desire for intimacy. Chief among them was Seewa AI, which offered its users the “perfect AI girlfriend”, drew them in with intimate conversations and promised that all chats were strictly confidential.

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.

On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing.

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, plans to step down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave.

Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models.

The U.S. cyber defense agency CISA is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to audit government software, ‌three people familiar with the matter said on Monday, another sign of government enthusiasm for adopting the AI startup’s tools even as the company navigates an ongoing standoff with the White House.

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