Yemen

Further developments will be announced in due course, the ministry says.

The news comes as we learn the Iran-backed Houthis are gaining ground in Yemen and striking Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure, forcing the kingdom to consider escalating its military campaign or tolerating greater rebel leverage.

The Houthi advance near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could give the group more scope to disrupt shipping and add pressure to oil prices, complicating Saudi Arabia's efforts to shield its economy from regional conflict.

Nicholas Burns is former US ambassador to NATO.

You know, the, uh, the Houthis have been trying to take over, uh, the s- the, the Red Sea straits to cut off that, that oil.

And so the, uh, the, the, uh, Yemeni, y- the Yemen government, the main government, which is pretty weak and backed by the Saudis, they figured they'd go in and take out the Houthis.

And apparently they can't get the job done even though they've got jets.

The Saudis have got jets and they can't get the job done.

Claude was used in a real weapons development program.

Cases included a Yemen-based guided rocket test, a Russian autonomous kamikaze drone swarm, and Chinese software for prioritizing Taiwanese air defense grant.

We didn't get IoCs there, but it talked about, uh, uh, Anthropic also found Claude being used in potentially dangerous bio- biological research.

Cases involved chikungunya gain-of-function work, mammal-adapted avian influenza, orthopoxvirus research, and toxin design.

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Most of that's been knocked out, but they have missiles.

They'll always have some missiles.

Meanwhile, Houthi terrorists supported by Iran have reportedly taken control of Yemen's port city of Mocha and advanced down the Red Sea coast.

Yemeni government military sources told Reuters that the Houthis had gained further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern outlet of the Red Sea and one of the world's most important shipping routes.

An attempt to amplify bots against journalists from that ethnic minority, developing dossiers on religious figures in Asia, not just Christian figures, Buddhist figures, too.

Attempts by threat actors in northern Yemen to design ballistic missiles, biological research.

On avian influenza, that is the kind of thing that could be weaponized because it's gain of function.

This is getting widely talked about as bioweapons research.

For a slightly different application of AI in a military context, Anthropic released, uh, this long stream of, uh, all the ways that, uh, sus- uh, suspect actors around the world have been, you know, playing Claude instead of making, you know, uh, organizing apps, apparently.

A- and, um, uh, you know, mini-games and making my dad a golf, uh, a tennis manager simulator.

Uh, the Yemenis used, uh, uh, Claude Code to develop guidance, navigation, and control software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle.

Um, the field test failed at one point, but within hours, actors returned to Claude to ask why it failed.

Um, you know, props to them for the ingenuity, I guess.

Yeah.

But y- you're, you're absolutely-

But at least the Yemenis have set up the drone, uh, the drones unit that we used to have in the US Army.

Just on the escalating things in the Middle East, I mean, it kind of makes sense.

We didn't talk about this beforehand, but I don't know if you saw that the Houthis took from the Saudi-backed forces in Yemen something like 5,200 square kilometers of land.

It was almost like when they came into Syria, they just swept over it and took all this land back.

And now they've got even the island in the Balbandab Strait, they've got control over that.

You know, the funny thing about the Houthis is they're not even a country.

They're not even a nation state.

They're a rebel group within Yemen itself.

Well, not for long at the rate they're going.

And, you know, minigames.

I'm making my dad a golf ball.

tennis manager simulator the Yemenis used Claude code to develop guidance navigation and control software that steers and stabilizes a flying vehicle the field test failed at one point but within hours actors returned to Claude to ask why it failed you know props to them for the ingenuity I guess, you know, there is a world in which this does not end up in a report.

And actually, like, you know, you want to do cyber war.

Well, like, how about you get into the OODA loop of your adversaries using American software, which you have sort of real time control over what it's telling them to like, you know.

And there's now another threat to global shipping.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized the strategic Red Sea port of Mocha in Yemen, bringing them closer to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

That's a critical shipping route on the opposite side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz, where the war in Iran has already disrupted oil shipments.

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