Srinagar, Sept. 12 -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has claimed that its Claude models were used in multiple malicious operations involving cyber-espionage, weapons development, mass surveillance and covert influence campaigns, prompting the company to strengthen safeguards and monitoring.

In a new threat report, Anthropic said it had disrupted an operation in northern Yemen in which Claude was allegedly used to assist with missile-guidance software, including systems for a guided rocket and a long-range ballistic missile.

According to the report, the operators used Claude in place of human software engineers and assigned different model instances specific tasks related to missile guidance and flight-control software.

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