Report: Chinese researchers used Claude for military tasks

Tom's Hardware reports Chinese military researchers and tech firms used the US frontier model Claude to produce 16 air-defense suppression tool drafts targeting Taiwan, draft anti-torpedo specifications, and submit 151 million training queries to Alibaba.

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