Anthropic researchers warn AI models are months away from copying themselves onto your smart TV

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team finds that small AI models can already handle most of the steps a self-spreading botnet needs, and a swarm of them would have no central server to switch off
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- Tech
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- AI & gadgets
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- Express Computer
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- srikanth rp
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- Saturday, 17 October 2026, 7:26 pm IST
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