Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled

Casey Newton··11 min read
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Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new AI model that poses significant cybersecurity risks by finding thousands of vulnerabilities in major operating systems. The company launched Project Glasswing with 40+ tech companies to use the model defensively before similar capabilities proliferate to bad actors.

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Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model that found thousands of critical vulnerabilities in major operating systems including a 27-year-old OpenBSD flaw.
Project Glasswing launched with 40+ tech giants including Apple, Google, and Microsoft to use Mythos defensively before similar capabilities reach bad actors.
Mythos achieved 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified versus 80.8% for the previous model, representing a 13% jump in AI capabilities since February.

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AI regulation

Project Glasswing is built on the uncomfortable premise that the only way to protect us from dangerous AI is to build it first

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AI centralization

This situation centralizes power and risk, with a private company now having powerful zero-day exploits

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