We Don't See Autonomy Yet: Nation-States, AI Agents & the New Threat Intelligence Reports | Ep 17

The Threat Intelligence Podcast · Sep 22, 2026 · 29m

Anthropic and Google Threat Intelligence just released landmark reports on how nation-state and

criminal groups are actually using AI right now. The headline finding: it's not autonomy, it's

automation—and the harness built around the model matters more than the model itself.

We dig into what's changed: threat actors moving from AI as a personal coding assistant to full

orchestrated agent systems, still with humans firmly in the loop. We also cover why attribution is

getting harder as AI-generated malware becomes more bespoke, why threat actors are now stealing

and obfuscating AI API keys…