EU Tech Commissioner Lands in Dublin Demanding Global AI Rules as Anthropic Exposes Bioweapon and Spying Risks

EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen used a Dublin visit today to call for binding global AI rules, citing alarming disclosures from Anthropic that its Claude models were used in state-sponsored spying and bioweapon research. Speaking to reporters in Dublin, Virkkunen — the EU's Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy — said the bloc's AI Act requires model providers to continuously assess and mitigate risks, but acknowledged this standard doesn't...