Last Thursday, Anthropic, the American AI company behind Claude, released a report that reads like a dark science-fiction preview. Kremlin-backed actors, the company said, had been using Claude to program autonomous lethal drones. A Russian-linked group known to investigators as GTG-27005 used the AI system to develop a model compact enough to run on single-board computers but powerful enough to help a drone select targets—including a specific “person” target class—and to issue detonation commands without a human being in the loop. In other words, they were trying to build a machine that could decide who lives and who dies entirely…

Imagine scrolling through your social feed and stumbling upon a video with the familiar CNN logo, a well-known actor’s face, and a caption that makes you do a double take. The celebrity looks straight into the camera and says something shocking: that all Democrats are criminals and that you should not vote for them. It feels like a leaked broadcast, a moment of truth, or maybe a celebrity finally saying what they really think. But it is none of those things. According to the Bot Blocker project, a group that tracks coordinated disinformation, this is the work of the “Matryoshka”…