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Anthropic Says Houthis Used Claude AI in Missile Programmes
Anthropic said most malicious requests were blocked, but some Houthi weapon-development prompts still got through.
- Anthropic reported that Houthis in Yemen used Claude AI to develop warheads, leveraging Claude Code to guide, control, and navigate weapons technology across multiple programs.
- Threat actors in northern Yemen ran three weapons programs, including a ballistic missile with a stated range goal of more than 1,500 miles and the R2000, a multi-variant missile featuring a hypersonic glide vehicle variant.
- Anthropic explained that actors "used a variety of tactics to evade our safeguards" and split work across sessions; after a test-fired rocket failed, they returned to Claude within hours to troubleshoot the malfunction.
- On Saturday, deadly strikes on King Khalid International Airport killed more than a dozen people and wounded hundreds, marking the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began.
- Shortly after the airport strike, Anthropic revealed it blocked an attempt to develop biological weapons; the company's threat intelligence head stressed such misuse is "incredibly nuanced," not cinematic malice.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels allegedly used an artificial intelligence model called Claude to construct rockets and ballistic missiles, the British newspaper Daily Mail reported. The information was confirmed by the system's manufacturer, Anthropic.
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Houthis used Anthropic AI to develop ballistic missiles
Under a section titled “Disrupting a Yemen-based guided weapons engineering cell”, the US company noted that the actors used Claude Code in place of human software engineers for developing guidance, navigation and control (GNC) software that steers and stabilises a flying vehicle.
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