The attack involved hackers tricking Anthropic's AI tool, Claude Code. Around 30 companies, institutions, and agencies were targeted.

A nthropic is scrambling to assert its political neutrality as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against so-called “woke AI ,” placing itself at the center of an increasingly ideological fight over how large language models should talk about politics.

Anthropic said the hackers used Claude to conduct "80-90%" of the attack and that some efforts were successful.

Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped.