ANTHROPIC CONJURES ANOTHER THREAT THAT DOESN'T EXIST YET TO STOKE FEARS OF AI APOCALYPSE

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Anthropic says a 9-billion-parameter model ran distributed inference on eight of nine hardware types. Its GLM-5.2 test copied Llama3.1-8B to seven or eight emulated Android nodes in five trials. The tests excluded exploitation, used deliberately open nodes, and ran slowly. Other open-weight models failed end-to-end replication. Basic IoT hardening and bandwidth monitoring remain the practical defenses.