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Defense

Dual-use, export controls, and the security briefings that are also sales decks.

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The court said the refusal was the risk. The Pentagon keeps Claude out.

A 2-1 D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk. Katsas and Rao said the refusal to relax Claude on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance was enough. Henderson dissented. Rita Lin’s California order still stands on a different statute. Claude stays off Defense work.

ByMaya ChenNews EditorSeptember 26, 2026

Official portrait of Andy Burnham MP, 13 July 2026. Photo by the House of Commons, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Washington asked the labs to starve AISI. The American tester has a few dozen staff.

The Office of the National Cyber Director wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new frontier models until US authorities review them first. Politico Thursday, a British official to Bloomberg Friday. Anthropic already limited Mythos 5.1 to US organizations. Burnham spent UNGA calling AISI “hand in glove” with Washington. Trump rejected a globalist scheme.

ByMaya ChenNews EditorSeptember 25, 2026

Empty Class III biosafety cabinet and aerosol control platform at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Frederick, Maryland. Photo courtesy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, public domain.

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Amodei asked the Council to ban AI bioweapons. The five cases were already on the desk.

At the Security Council he named misuse — bioterrorists, biological weapons — as one of two risks grave enough for the chamber. In September his own threat-intelligence report listed five blocked Claude files that could support weapons work and also a vaccine. Dual-use is the load-bearing word. A Council ask is not a statute.

ByMaya ChenNews EditorSeptember 25, 2026

Transmission electron micrograph of bacteriophages attached to a bacterial cell wall, magnified about 200,000 times. Photo by Professor Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Claude spotted the repeats. The function is the part the lab has not shown.

Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours on more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases and spotted a CRISPR-like repeat array in bacteriophage DNA. The lab named it ART and does not know what it does. Lucas Harrington, of the Doudna line and Mammoth Biosciences, says the search is decades old. The same week, agent swarms are a Security Council file and an Australian investigation.

ByMaya ChenNews EditorSeptember 24, 2026