How Dangerous Is Anthropic’s Mythos AI?
Anthropic's restricted release suggests AI vulnerability scanners may soon outperform human security teams, forcing enterprises to reconsider threat modeling assumptions.
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Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan and fix their own software. The announcement requires context—but it contained an essential truth. While Anthropic’s model is really good at finding software vulnerabilities, so are other models. The UK’s
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