AINewsnow

Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks

This story is from 2026-09-11. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Anthropic claims Claude refused instructions to potentially develop biological weapons — alleged state-linked accounts tried to evade identification and regional blocks

Read the full story at Tom's Hardware ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-09-11 10:00 · Tom's Hardware
    Anthropic says Claude thwarted bioweapon research from state-sponsored actors — covert accounts used U.S. proxies to attempt to engineer deadlier viruses, tried to evade identification and regional blocks

More stories

  1. AI's role in building AI surging? Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D — Mint AI
  2. Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI — The Verge AI
  3. Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself — Fast Company AI
  4. Is this Minimax H3? — r/StableDiffusion
  5. OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot — The Guardian AI
  6. Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It — Wired AI
  7. Anthropic Shifts Planned IPO to November — Wall Street Journal Technology
  8. A zero-click RCE flaw in AI coding agents could have exposed enterprise systems — InfoWorld AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →