Anthropic has said that its new AI model, dubbed Claude Mythos, is so adept at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it could have an adverse impact on economies, public safety, and national security.

Anthropic has said that its new AI model, dubbed Claude Mythos, is so adept at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that it could have an adverse impact on economies, public safety, and national security.
Claude Mythos identifies thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities:
Anthropic says it used Claude Mythos over the last few weeks to identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities 'in every major operating system and every major web browser'.
In the benchmarks revealed by Anthropic, Mythos Preview got a score of 83.1% in areas measuring its ability to independently recreate known security flaws and generate functional exploit codes.
Mythos also found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-hardened operating system used for critical infrastructure. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely crash connected machines.
In another case, Mythos found multiple vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel and went on to chain them together to allow a hacker to take complete control over the machines.
Anthropic's head of frontier red teams, Logan Graham, told Axios that the Mythos Preview is 'extremely autonomous' and has sophisticated reasoning capabilities that give it the skills of an advanced security researcher. The model can find "tens of thousands of vulnerabilities", which he says even the most advanced bug hunter would struggle to find, and even write exploits to go with them.
Anthropic to roll out Mythos to over 40 companies:
Anthropic has announced that it will be rolling out Claude Mythos to over 40 companies that build or maintain critical software infrastructure. Twelve of these 40 companies (Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks) are participating in Anthropic's new Project Glasswing.
Anthropic has committed $100 million in model usage credits for the participants, and the AI startup has also donated $2.5 million to the Linux Foundation and $1.5 million to the Apache Software Foundation to assist open-source maintainers in hardening their crucial codebases against AI-augmented threats.