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Spies, surveillance and rogue AI: Best infosec long reads 9/12/26
Flock’s surveillance network faces a bipartisan revolt, Did AI agents “go rogue”? Will AI make mathematicians obsolete? The case for an AI adverse-event reporting system, Shared data centers make spying easier than hacking
AI shifts from cyber assistant to attack operator, Anthropic finds
Anthropic says Russian spies, criminals and hacktivists used Claude to accelerate and automate cyberattacks, while other actors pursued potential biological weapons research, military programs and industrial-scale theft of Anthropic’s models.
US sanctions Xinbi Guarantee over cyber scams and money laundering
The Justice Department also seized infrastructure and digital-asset wallets tied to the Chinese-language marketplace, while Treasury sanctioned two companies supporting its operations.
US accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘malicious’ copying at industrial scale
Officials say DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other companies exploited leading American AI models to accelerate development of their own products, escalating tensions ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting