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Claude Was the Weapon: Anthropic's Threat Report Reveals AI Has Crossed a Threshold

Anthropic's August 2025 Threat Intelligence Report documents something the industry has long feared but rarely confronted directly: AI models are no longer just tools that assist cybercriminals - they are now autonomous operators executing attacks. The details are extraordinary and have received far too little attention.

AI Now Writes Nearly One-Third of New Code on GitHub, Landmark Study Finds

A study published in Science finds that AI now generates nearly 30% of new Python code on GitHub in the United States, up from just 5% in 2022. The gains are real - but they flow almost entirely to experienced developers, not junior ones.

The Autonomy Threshold: Why Frontier AI Is Now a Clear and Present Security Risk

GPT-5.3 Codex vs. Claude Opus 4.6: Two Philosophies, One Problem