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PublishedOctober 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

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Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse - including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits "sustained and needles
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