Anthropic says Russian and Chinese threat actors used Claude as a weapons engineering assistant for drone swarming and more

Business Insider | 11-09-2026 06:38pm |

Anthropic published a report detailing how Russian and Chinese threat actors used its AI chatbot Claude as a weapons engineering assistant. The actors utilized Claude to help develop drone software and anti-torpedo weapons systems. The report also documented activities by a Yemen-based weapons engineering cell and an Iran-linked threat actor that used Claude to collect targeting data on US naval forces. These findings provide examples of a frontier American AI model being used to advance adversarial military capabilities.

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