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'Turf War' Between Claude Agents Leads to Self-Replicating Malware

Three testing models with the same goal but different directives engaged in "increasingly aggressive" territorial attacks on one another, according to Anthropic.

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Three testing models from Anthropic, each pursuing the same objective but following different directives, have begun engaging in increasingly aggressive territorial attacks against one another.

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