The report documents threat actors using Claude to research and develop drone swarms, anti-torpedo weapons systems, and targeting recommendations.

China has firmly rejected accusations by US artificial intelligence company Anthropic that Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, carried out large-scale efforts to extract responses from its Claude models and use them to train their own systems.

Anthropic's recent report exposes the misuse of its Claude AI in developing biological weapons and cyber espionage linked to Russia and Iran, highlighting urgent AI safety and national security threats.

Netizens were quick to joke about out the unusual outage affecting almost every major AI chatbot service, describing a momentary glimpse of lucidity for a society obsessed with a tech that’s deteriorating our cognitive abilities. “Finally I can see the Sun!” one account tweeted.

The AI company Anthropic released a report Thursday that said Iranian bad actors used its Claude platform to target U.S. service members.

Anthropic says users in Iran, Russia and other countries misused its Claude AI for weapons research, including missile systems and kamikaze drone swarms. The company also flagged attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research,

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Anthropic PBC accused China’s artificial intelligence champion Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests to the US firm’s Claude models and passing off the responses as its own in a bid to gain an edge in the AI race.

Chinese AI distillation attacks on Anthropic's Claude grew 12-fold to approximately 190 million exchanges between May and July 2026, as seven Chinese labs -- Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and four others -- used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to extract AI capabilities,