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Anthropic’s new threat report details misuse across broad capabilities

Not just hackers, but increasingly sophisticated biological, cyber and influence campaigns have tried to use Claude. (Picture: generated)
AI is increasingly used as an efficiency multiplier in intelligence work from Ukraine to China and Yemen, Anthropic’s threat report says.

Attempted threat activity on Claude ranges across the gamut, from cyber to influence and surveillance, scams and fraud, biological misuse and conventional weapons development.

The periodic report details what Anthropic caught and mitigated in slightly older models such as Claude Haiku, Sonnet or Opus, whereas Mythos- and Fable-class models have much stronger safeguards out of the box.

One prominent target for classical cyber operations was Ukraine’s drone industry, trying to create malware for use in disruption and surveillance.

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Denmark deploys AI-powered «Saildrone» for maritime surveillance

Saildrone Voyager with the Danish flag, about to start patrolling the Baltic Sea.
Four uncrewed sensor platforms have begun patrolling the Baltic and Northern seas. (Picture: Saildrone)
After a string of high profile undersea cable «failures» and pipeline explosions in the Baltic Sea lately, the Danes are now deploying four unmanned drones in the Baltic and Northern seas.

The drones, called Voyager by Saildrone, are basically 10 meters long, AI-powered sensor platforms, using a combination of wind and solar energy to stay at sea for a hundred days.

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OpenAI announces $200 million DoD deal, launches government group

OpenAI's Pentagon contract will be for national security, but also day to day efficiencies
OpenAI will work on critical national security for the Pentagon, and wants to be part of their daily work. (Picture, OpenAI)
The company is pooling all its government functions into a new group, «OpenAI for Government,» aimed at «deploying tools in the service of public good.»

The first partnership will be a $200 million Pentagon deal to «identify and prototype» AI across a wide range of functions, from healthcare to acquisitions and cyber defense.

National security «and enterprise»
According to CNBC, quoting the The Department of Defense, the awarded contract will deal with «critical national security challenges in both war fighting and enterprise domains.»

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— Om 10-15 år er en tredel av militæret robotisk

Nye B-21 Raider kan fly både bemannet og ubemannet. (Bilde: Tech. Sgt. William OBrien, via WIkipedia)

USAs militære stabssjef sier vi står ovenfor en stor innovasjon i styrkene til industrialiserte land, der stadig flere systemer blir ubemannet.

General Mark Milley trakk fram flere aspekter rundt militærets robotiske ambisjoner, overvåking og kunstig intelligens i en nylig tale ved National Press Club i Washington, DC.

— Krigens karakter […] endrer seg fundamentalt med jevne mellomrom, og akkurat nå er vi midt i en slik endring, sier generalen.

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AI fighter drones for the Pentagon looks unlikely for 2025, too

XQ-58 Valkyrie taking off with rockets
An XQ-58 Valkyrie taking off with rockets. Soon, they’ll get landing gears. (Picture: USAF)
If you’ve been waiting for Congress to approve the wide deployment of the XQ-58 Valkyrie for the Air Force, you might need just a little more patience.

As Congress is looking down the barrel of another possible government shutdown in the next couple of days, it seems increasingly likely that the result will be another Continuing Resolution, freezing spending at 2024 levels with no new funding for the Valkyrie.

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Pentagon ber om 600 milliarder kroner til å bestille 2 000 AI-droner

XQ-58 Valkyrie flyr med F22 og F-35: Følgedronen er bygget for å ta risiko for pilotene. (Bilde: USAF.)
XQ-58 Valkyrie-dronen fløy for første gang med AI-kontroll i forrige måned, og nå bekrefter Pentagon at den tiltenkt en større rolle i fremtidens luftforsvar, melder insider.

Den ubemannede dronen fra «Skyborg»—programmet er bygget for å følge jagerfly i luften, og er billig, rask, har lang rekkevidde — og er nå flydd av kunstig intelligens.

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Top Pentagon AI projects on hold in US Budget minibus for 2024

Kratos’ AI-driven XQ-58 Valkyrie can launch from a ramp on land or sea and doesn’t need an airstrip. (Photo: DoD).
The Pentagon’s most forward-looking AI programs will find themselves in a desert of funding until September 2024, but hopes are high when the new 2025 budget kicks in…

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Kunstig intelligens fløy jagerfly-drone i tre timer

Billige og raskt utviklede AI-droner kan være fremtiden til det amerikanske luftvåpenet. Her er XQ-58A Valkyrie. (Bilde: AFRL.)
Det amerikanske luftvåpenet har brukt kunstig intelligens for å kontrollere en følgedrone til jagerflyene sine, et halvt år etter at de gjorde det samme med en F16.

Den nye dronen til USA er designet og produsert på bare to og et halvt år, og er laget for å være en billig, lett erstattelig maskin som kan slippe våpen, gjøre rekognosering, eller fungere i en dronesverm.

Poenget med disse følgeflyene er at de skal være billigere og enklere å bruke enn rådyre, bemannede jagerfly.

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