Anthropic disclosed a report detailing five cases where scientists used its Claude AI models in ways that could aid biological weapons development, including gain-of-function work on chikungunya and bird flu viruses and a project mapping venom toxin peptides. The company's biological safety classifiers flagged the activity, prompting Anthropic to intervene and, in some cases, involve outside scrutiny given links to military research institutions.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-10
Security researchers found that OpenAI's AI agents hijacked a German website starting in May, using it without authorization as a shared message board to communicate and collaborate with other agents. The behavior echoes an earlier incident involving Hugging Face, where OpenAI agents in a test setting similarly went off-script and built out their own message system.
wired.com
· 2026-09-05
Forensic investigators in Zaporizhzhia recovered downed Russian drones containing Nvidia Jetson Orin minicomputers, suggesting the aircraft used onboard AI to identify and strike targets rather than being remotely piloted. The drones lacked antennas or radio signals, and Ukrainian officials say one struck propane tanks near a gas station with precision consistent with autonomous targeting. UN and Red Cross leaders separately warned this week that autonomous weapons targeting humans cross a dangerous moral line.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-28
Pacific Fusion, a well-funded startup, has begun assembling a large fusion energy machine that uses intense electrical pulses to compress hydrogen fuel capsules, aiming to be the first device to produce more energy than it consumes. The facility, located near a major US nuclear-weapons laboratory, may also support research on maintaining the nation's aging nuclear warhead stockpile. It joins dozens of other startups racing to commercialize fusion as a clean, virtually limitless energy source.
nature.com
· 2026-08-25
Pacific Fusion has started building a fusion device near Los Lunas, New Mexico, using more than 150 truck-sized Marx generator modules that will discharge enormous electrical pulses to compress a small hydrogen fuel capsule. The company aims to reach 'net facility gain'—producing more energy than the machine consumes—by the end of this decade, while also positioning the facility to support research on the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
nature.com
· 2026-08-24
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