Anthropic told the NYT it disrupted several bioweapon-adjacent research efforts this year and couldn't tell if they were malicious
New York Times (Anthropic September 2026 threat report; via r/singularity)·medium signal
Anthropic said scientists got around its blocked-region controls and hid the purpose of their work to evade safeguards, and it banned the accounts involved. It did not name the institutions, countries or agents, partly because valid vaccine research and pathogen engineering look alike. In the r/singularity thread, a grad student said Fable refuses about 99% of complex biology questions. The report tension is between catching these efforts and refusing legitimate researchers.