Suspected Chinese operators used Anthropic's AI coding tool to target about 30 global organizations — and had success in several cases, the company said Thursday.

Why it matters: This is the first documented case of a foreign government using AI to fully automate a cyber operation, Anthropic warned. • Anthropic said the campaign relied on Claude's agentic capabilities, or the model's ability to take autonomous action across multiple steps with minimal human direction.

The big picture: The dam is breaking on state hackers using AI to speed up and scale digital attacks. • Earlier this month, Google said Russian military hackers used an AI model to help generate malware for targeting Ukrainian entities. But that required human operators to prompt the model step by step. • In this new

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