European leaders are preparing for potential Russian drone and missile attacks against NATO countries as Moscow intensifies hybrid warfare operations. Germany is readying hospitals, Lithuania has updated evacuation plans, and NATO is conducting exercises in the Baltic region, with Polish officials warning of possible attacks within months.
Exclusive photos obtained by CBS News reveal significant damage at U.S. military bases across the Middle East from Iranian missile and drone attacks, including a direct hit on a Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department's inspector general reported equipment losses worth up to $3.7 billion, including nearly 60 aircraft, across bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan.
Anthropic's threat report documents hostile actors from Yemen, China, Russia, and Iran using Claude AI for weapons development, including guidance systems for missiles and drones. The most serious case involved a Yemeni cell using Claude Code to develop software for guided rockets and ballistic missiles, employing evasion tactics to circumvent safeguards, though no operational weapons were successfully fielded.
Anthropic reported that Houthi operators in Yemen used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software, running parallel instances to design guidance systems, simulate trajectories, and analyze a failed rocket test. The activity represents one of the clearest examples of generative AI being applied to conventional weapons development, though Anthropic found no evidence the group succeeded in fielding an operational weapon.
Anthropic's September threat report reveals a Yemen-based cell assessed as linked to the Houthis used Claude Code to develop guidance software for guided rockets, ballistic missiles, and hypersonic glide vehicles by operating multiple parallel instances for coding, research, and review. The operators circumvented safeguards through task fragmentation, test-fired a weapon, conducted failure analysis using telemetry, and compiled an offline toolkit before accounts were disrupted.