The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating a senior Derbyshire Constabulary detective for alleged gross misconduct linked to misuse of Microsoft Copilot. The officer is accused of using the AI tool to shape policy decisions, assess risk, and justify investigative choices, as well as entering sensitive case and personal data into it. The probe follows a voluntary referral from the force in June after an internal review, and will examine Copilot use between May 2025 and June 2026.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-23
Anthropic disclosed in a new report that it identified and stopped five instances of 'biological misuse' involving its Claude AI chatbot. The flagged cases included attempts to use the model to research dangerous viruses and investigate toxic venom for potentially harmful purposes.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-11
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence team disclosed that it identified and shut down multiple cyber operations run by state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, and politically motivated actors who abused its Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models. The company said no misuse was found involving Claude Fable or Mythos, which carry stronger safeguards, and that in every case it disrupted the activity, patched its defenses, and coordinated with law enforcement and industry partners.
anthropic.com
· 2026-09-10
A commentary published on nature.com calls on rights holders and publishers to revise existing copyright licensing agreements specifically to block unauthorized use of creative and scholarly works by AI training systems. The authors argue that current licence terms were not designed with machine-learning ingestion in mind, leaving a gap that companies have exploited to harvest content without consent or compensation.
nature.com
· 2026-08-25
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