Anthropic Warns AI Could Spread Through Smart TVs and Home Devices Without Data Centres
What if a cyberattack did not need a powerful computer or a massive data centre to keep going? What if it could use the devices already sitting in people's homes? That is the unsettling possibility raised by new research from Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. In a report published on October 12, 2026, Anthropic warned that relatively small AI models could soon become capable of copying themselves across internet-connected devices and running on the hardware they find.
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