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Anthropic-Designated GTG-87001 Weapons Cell in Northern Yemen Reportedly Used Claude Code to Develop Missile Guidance Software
Anthropic reported that a northern Yemen-based weapons cell, designated GTG-87001, used Claude Code across three weapons programs to develop guidance, navigation, and control software. The actors reportedly test-fired a guided rocket that appeared to fail, then returned to Claude for failure analysis. Anthropic said it banned associated accounts and shared threat intelligence with partners.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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