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Anthropic has released a detailed account of how its Claude AI was misused for weapons research, espionage, and cyber operations. The report, published in Reuters, is notable less for its alarm and more for its candor. It signals that frontier AI labs are under growing pressure to document the gap between intended and actual use.
Shifting to the battlefield, a Ukrainian firm called Drone Fight Group has delivered Humvees fitted with remote-control conversion kits, connected through Starlink. The system, called Kaban, requires no structural modification to the vehicle, letting crews flip between manual and autonomous modes. It represents a quiet but significant step in how commercial satellite infrastructure is reshaping ground warfare.
And in a story that is either deeply fascinating or a sign of something we should probably think harder about, a developer has wired a fruit fly brain connectome to play Super Mario Bros at sixty frames per second. The simulation maps the fly's neural architecture onto game inputs. It raises genuine questions about what computation means when the hardware is biology.
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