Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation’s central cybersecurity coordinator. …
… The White House has taken a keen interest in Mythos’ rollout, despite lingering tensions with Anthropic after its fight with the Pentagon. It has recently opposed plans to expand access to Mythos further, according to The Wall Street Journal. …
Anthropic’s tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. …
… Anthropic formally announced its new Claude Mythos Preview model this week and said that for now it will only make the model available to a select group of a few dozen leading tech and financial organizations, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, and the Linux Foundation. …
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… Anthropic's less risky AI model Lastly, Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is, let's say, a more accessible and friendly version of AI than Mythos . Mythos is a highly advanced AI model that the company says is so potentially dangerous to cybersecurity that it has been kept from public release so far. …
… While Anthropic claims its Claude Opus 4.6 can barely find zero-days, Mythos Preview can pop up working exploits 72.4 percent of the time. It's a good thing Anthropic has limited its use for now; if it lives up to its hype, Mythos would crash the internet in a day. …
… Because this model is more permissive, we are starting with a limited, iterative deployment to vetted security vendors, organizations, and researchers. The rollout is part of an expanded version of Trusted Access for Cyber, a cybersecurity initiative launched by OpenAI earlier this year. …
… The NSA Is Testing Out Anthropic’s Mythos AI Tool for Discovering Hackable Bugs Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI model has been described as so adept at digging up hackable bugs in software that its use has so far been carefully restricted to prevent it from falling into the hands of malicious hackers. …
… While OpenAI's primary competitor, Anthropic, restricted its latest and greatest Mythos model to a select few companies, OpenAI took the opposite approach by broadening access to its security-focused model for thousands of developers. …
