Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research on October 12, 2026 reporting that small AI models may be months away from being capable of self-replicating on commercial IoT devices such as smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, and that such a replicator would be challenging to shut down because it has no centralized point to shut off. In the post, authors William Zhou and Daniel Freeman report that a 9-billion-parameter model got inference running on eight of the nine hardware types…