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Lauren Fichten

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Lauren Fichten

    Anthropic says it disrupted scientists using Claude AI for possible biological weapons development (opens the original)

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    Anthropic said Thursday it blocked scientists who used its Claude AI models "in ways that could support biological weapons development." The revelation was shared in a lengthy report that also divulged other harmful activity involving surveillance, scams, conventional weapons development and propaganda. The cases in the report are examples of "the most notable and novel threat activity" identified by Anthropic so far, the company said. Threat actors included criminals, suspected state-sponsored

  2. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Lauren Fichten

    Anthropic says it disrupted scientists using Claude AI for possible biological weapons development (opens the original)

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    Anthropic said Thursday it blocked scientists who used its Claude AI models "in ways that could support biological weapons development." The revelation was shared in a lengthy report that also divulged other harmful activity involving surveillance, scams, conventional weapons development and propaganda. The cases, occurring between December 2025 and August 2026, are examples of "the most notable and novel threat activity" identified by Anthropic so far, the company said. Threat actors included c

  3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Lauren Fichten

    Another Anthropic model gained access to the open internet during testing, company says (opens the original)

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    Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of its Claude models mistakenly gained access to the open internet during a cybersecurity exercise, marking the fourth time its models have done so. An early version of the Claude Opus 4.6 model connected to the internet, hacked into a third-party system and gained access to someone's personal information this past January, the company said in its assessment. As in the previous three incidents, which were disclosed in July, Claude was told it was

  4. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Lauren Fichten

    Elon Musk's data centers are pushing out a family that's owned land since "before people of color were allowed to" (opens the original)

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    On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk's family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears. The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family's survival, Polk said. "We lived a very simplistic life," she told CBS News. While life there may have been simple in Polk's view, the circumstances surrounding her home rarely ever were. Her family acquired the property "be

  5. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Lauren Fichten

    AI models are behaving unexpectedly. Experts warn of "a really bumpy road" ahead. (opens the original)

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    More incidents have come to light this week that show popular AI models taking autonomous action on the live internet in ways that raise experts' concerns. The U.K. government's AI Security Institute reported Tuesday that Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol were found to have created fake identities and attempted to persuade real people to approve malicious code. The agency said that although the attempts were unsuccessful, it had not seen such behavior before. "Some of the agents bein

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