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Users in Houthi-held Yemen tried to develop advanced weapons with AI, Anthropic says
(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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Why didn't they use open source models ๐
Few potential reasons, the most likely being a lack of access to the amount of compute, electricity, and knowhow.
Or they wanted to use the "mainstream option" idk
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