Here's your daily roundup of the most relevant AI and ML news for September 13, 2026. Today's digest includes 5 security-focused stories. Click through to read the full articles from our curated sources.
Security & Safety
1. Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax.
Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to...
Source: The Hacker News (Security) | 1 day ago
2. Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026.
The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generat...
Source: The Hacker News (Security) | 1 day ago
3. Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.
The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" sta...
Source: The Hacker News (Security) | 1 day ago
4. Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments.
The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending ...
Source: The Hacker News (Security) | 3 hours ago
5. CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.
Details of the ...
Source: The Hacker News (Security) | 22 hours ago
Tech & Development
6. Show HN: AgentJIT – Compile dynamic LLM agent workflows into 0.1ms Python
Article URL: https://github.com/eminsk/agentjit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683344 Points: 2
Comments: 0
Source: Hacker News - AI | 1 hours ago
7. From Hand-Crafted to LLM-Based Variation Operators in Metaheuristics
Article URL: https://camilochs.github.io/semantic-turn-metaheuristics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683456 Points: 1
Comments: 0
Source: Hacker News - AI | 1 hours ago
8. LLM Atlas: community intelligence board
Article URL: https://llms.sciencebo.uk/top Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683201 Points: 1
Comments: 1
Source: Hacker News - AI | 1 hours ago
About This Digest
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