What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity

# AI Can Now Find Computer Vulnerabilities Faster Than Human Experts Anthropic released a new AI tool that can automatically discover serious security flaws in software—the kind that professional security teams miss—and turn them into working attacks. The company is keeping it limited to a small group of companies rather than releasing it publicly because the tool is powerful enough to cause real harm if it fell into the wrong hands. This is part of a bigger trend where AI is gradually changing cybersecurity in ways we might not fully appreciate until it's too late.
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that t
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