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Anthropic blocks effort to use AI to research potential biological weapons

Sky News Technology · Sep 11, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC

Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons.

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