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It was published by the BBC two weeks ago and I think that makes it still reasonably relevant to general interest users who aren't embedded in "the industry."
I'm pretty sure we're collectively media literate enough to identify the flaws in the story, and it seems newsworthy on the basis of your first paragraph.
I didn't add my own commentary here, but the reason I posted is because I think it's interesting how much of the "AI" conversation appears to be occurring in the Land of Make-Believe. A company can essentially admit to making an open-to-the-public cyberweapon and there's nothing more than a vague press release and a few news articles on it.
Citation needed. Automating metasploit shouldn't be headline grabbing news and it sounds like you know better.
You can search the story yourself; I didn't see anything more recent than this BBC article.
Yes, the thing that seems interesting here is that it got written up. It seems self-evidently stupid as propaganda so the question is why they're apparently running with it. You could argue the goal is regulatory capture but that would require a government to start thinking about regulating it, so until that happens it's kind of just a weird announcement that using Claude for industrial espionage is against the TOS