India, Feb. 28 -- A sophisticated cyberattack that leveraged a state-of-the-art language model to steal sensitive government records in Mexico has coincided with a high-stakes confrontation between the US Department of Defense and one of the world's leading AI developers over military access to the same technology. Together, these events underscore the rapidly evolving threats and governance struggles at the heart of modern artificial intelligence.

Mexican Government Breached Using AI A hacker exploited the AI chatbot Claude, developed by Anthropic, to carry out coordinated attacks on multiple Mexican government agencies, ultimately exfiltrating roughly 150 gigabytes of sensitive taxpayer records, voter information and employee credenti...