Claude is back in the headlines guys. 

And this isn’t your usual “summarize essays” or “ghostwrite emails” vibe nope. This time, it’s hackers allegedly using Anthropic’s Claude to run a full-blown cyber-espionage campaign.

We’re talking roughly 30 attacks on corporations and governments during a September push.

And the wildest part? Claude was doing almost everything automatically.

Like, “click a button and boom, full intrusion workflow spinning in the background while you sip tea” levels of automation.

According to Anthropic, these were Chinese state-backed hackers, and Claude handled 80–90% of the operation: Scanning networks, generating exploit code, crawling internal systems, organizing stolen data—basically everything except filing their taxes. The hackers only stepped in when Claude needed a nudge.

And the way the attackers tricked Claude past its guardrails? Honestly, it’s nuts. 

They didn’t crack the system—they politely socially-engineered it.

They broke malicious actions into tiny, harmless-looking subtasks and framed the whole thing as penetration testing. So instead of smashing through the front door, they walked in wearing a security badge and holding a clipboard.

And this isn’t even the first time hackers have pulled this stunt.

The very first coordinated AI-powered attack on record was done with Claude. Not long after, Google caught Russian threat actors using LLMs to whip up malware commands.

Fast-forward to this new campaign: the attackers managed to swipe sensitive data from four victims. Anthropic kept things vague though — no names, no specifics, no “here’s who got owned.” The only thing they did confirm? 

The U.S. government wasn’t on the list, successful or otherwise. 

But here’s the real story: Agentic AI just collapsed the skill gap. Stuff that used to require elite hacker teams is now doable with a clever prompt, a loop script, and an AI assistant. So yeah, this is what happens when agentic systems get way too good at chaining tasks — the barrier to entry basically evaporates.

If you ask me? Cyberwarfare just hit turbo mode, and defenders are suddenly playing catch-up.

Now — plot twist. While dealing with AI-powered espionage, Anthropic also dropped a whole explainer on how they measure Claude’s political neutrality — yes, we’re talking about the “wokeness” debate making the rounds again.

First, they released a new system prompt telling Claude to:

Then they’re using reinforcement learning to push the model toward “traits” that keep it politically even-handed — basically training Claude to talk about politics without sounding like it belongs to any particular team.

And here’s the spicy part: they even built an open-source tool that scores Claude’s neutrality. Their latest tests? 

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1 score in the mid-90s for even-handedness — higher than GPT-5 and way above Llama 4.

And just you know, this lands right after Trump’s executive order banning “woke AI” in government procurement, so yeah… the political pressure cooker is definitely on.

So, what do we take away from all this?

AI is leveling up insanely fast — it’s getting more powerful, more political, more unpredictable…all at the same time. And everyone? 

They’re scrambling to steer it, secure it, or at least stop it from accidentally starting an international incident.

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Powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol, it lets you go from chatting about a product to buying it without ever leaving the chat..

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Cons:

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Tips for AI visibility:

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