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AI shifts from cyber assistant to attack operator, Anthropic finds
Anthropic says Russian spies, criminals and hacktivists used Claude to accelerate and automate cyberattacks, while other actors pursued potential biological weapons research, military programs and industrial-scale theft of Anthropic’s models.
US sanctions Xinbi Guarantee over cyber scams and money laundering
The Justice Department also seized infrastructure and digital-asset wallets tied to the Chinese-language marketplace, while Treasury sanctioned two companies supporting its operations.
US accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘malicious’ copying at industrial scale
Officials say DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other companies exploited leading American AI models to accelerate development of their own products, escalating tensions ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting
OpenAI’s tightly constrained agent probe missed an earlier warning
The company restricted outside investigators to a period that excluded previously undisclosed agent activity, raising questions about whether AI labs should control investigations of their own safety failures.