Anthropic said Thursday that Chinese hackers used its artificial intelligence technology in what the company believes is the first cyberespionage operation largely carried out using AI.

Anthropic said the cybercriminals used its popular chatbot, Claude, to target roughly 30 technology companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies. The hackers used the AI platform to gather usernames and passwords from the companies' databases that they then exploited to steal private data, Anthropic said, while noting that only a "small number" of these attacks succeeded.

"We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention," Anthropic said in a statement.

The San Francisco-based company did not i

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