OpenAI shut down two influence operations originating from Russia and Iran that utilized ChatGPT to create fake journalist personas and run a think tank spreading anti-Ukraine propaganda.

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U.S. intelligence officials and researchers warned that foreign malign actors could deploy generative artificial intelligence tools to target the November 3, 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

U.S. adversaries Russia, Iran, and China used generative artificial intelligence tools, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, to plan large-scale political propaganda campaigns.

An AI-generated deepfake video of the jailed Jair Bolsonaro endorsing his son Flavio Bolsonaro was screened at Flavio's official campaign launch in July 2026, prompting a Supreme Court inquiry

UK PM Andy Burnham said the UK's National Centre for Information Defence will collaborate with intelligence agencies, government departments, law enforcement, and social media platforms to combat information warfare

UK PM Andy Burnham said the UK government will establish the National Centre for Information Defence to detect and disrupt AI-enabled disinformation campaigns by hostile states

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham warned that artificial intelligence will act as a "multiplier of risk" and increase the threat of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.

Russian Central Election Commission Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova reported that Russia's parliamentary election infrastructure faced over 1,000 waves of DDoS cyberattacks using artificial intelligence tools

A small team of likely freelance developers in Russia used Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot to develop software for an autonomous swarm of first-person-view kamikaze attack drones