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Anthropic Is Helping the NSA Hack China. It Also Wants Everyone to Pause AI

Decrypt · Jun 5, 2026, 7:18 PM · Also reported by 2 other sources

The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI could soon build itself without humans in the loop.

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