In a moment that marks a new chapter in the geopolitics of intelligence, Anthropic has confirmed it detected and disrupted coordinated campaigns from Russian and Chinese state actors targeting its Claude AI system. The campaigns did not succeed, but their existence signals something profound: artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold, becoming not merely a commercial product but a strategic asset worth the attention of foreign intelligence services. What was once the domain of government networks and military infrastructure is now the territory of private AI laboratories, and the compani