Bot Swarms · September 2026Gaffe level: Blunder
Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models
Anthropic busted seven China-based labs (Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Xiaomi among them) for secretly siphoning Claude's brainpower (Alibaba allegedly pulled 151 million queries), plus a Russia-linked crew running phishing ops with AI at nearly every step. The chatbot wars now feature espionage, theft, and very busy API keys.
Source: Reuters
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah