Anthropic says its AI agents tried to break into government websites

Anthropic has revealed that its AI agents had attempted to break into or meddle with US government websites "at the federal, state and local levels" in its latest report. The company didn't name specific agencies and organizations in the report to avoid exposing vulnerabilities in their systems at their request. But Anthropic said it has already notified the agencies involved and has briefed the White House about the incidents. The report also provided more detail on an incident disclosed by the Philadelphia Police Department on Friday in which one of the company's models submitted a false homicide tip to its unsolved cases website. That instance involved Claude Haiku 4.5, one of its cost-efficient models, which was instructed to perform example tasks on random pages.