Claude Mythos

Anthropic🇺🇸 United States
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Version History

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Anthropic expands restricted preview to 150 additional organizations across 15+ countries, focusing on critical infrastructure sectors including utilities and healthcare. Public release remains delayed pending safety measures.

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Initial release limited to Project Glasswing partners. Public Mythos-class models planned for release within weeks of June 2, 2026.

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Anthropic released Mythos, a security-focused AI model designed to identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities. The model remains unreleased publicly due to security concerns.

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Mythos is Anthropic's new frontier model, positioned as larger and more intelligent than its Opus models. It is deployed exclusively through Project Glasswing for defensive cybersecurity work with 40+ vetted partner organizations, with claims of identifying thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities during early testing.

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Claude Mythos is Anthropic's specialized model for cybersecurity vulnerability discovery, designed to identify critical flaws in operating systems, browsers, and software. The model shows improvements over Claude Opus 4.6 in reasoning, agent-based capabilities, and coding.

Coverage

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Anthropic invites 150 more organizations to Claude Mythos preview, citing cybersecurity risks

Anthropic has invited approximately 150 additional organizations to Project Glasswing, its restricted preview program for Claude Mythos. The company continues to withhold public release of the frontier model due to its advanced capability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities, which Anthropic claims can surpass all but the most skilled human security researchers.

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Anthropic expands Claude Mythos cybersecurity program to 150 new partners, promises public release in weeks

Anthropic is expanding its Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative to approximately 150 new organizations, including Samsung and NATO, bringing the total to around 200 partners across 15+ countries. The company says it will release Mythos-class models to all customers within weeks, following the April unveiling of Claude Mythos which was initially limited to select partners like Apple.

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Trump officials encourage banks to test Anthropic's Mythos model for security vulnerabilities

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives this week and encouraged them to test Anthropic's newly announced Mythos model for detecting security vulnerabilities. According to Bloomberg, major banks including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are already testing the model alongside JPMorgan Chase, despite Anthropic's stated plan to limit initial access.

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White House officials questioned tech CEOs on AI security ahead of Anthropic's Mythos release

Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a call with leading tech CEOs including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Google's Sundar Pichai to discuss AI model security and cyber attack response. The meeting occurred one week before Anthropic released its Mythos model, which has major cybersecurity implications and raised concerns at the Federal Reserve and among top U.S. banks.

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Anthropic limits Mythos release to enterprises, citing security risks and blocking distillation

Anthropic announced it is limiting Mythos, its newest model, to large enterprises and critical infrastructure operators rather than releasing it publicly, claiming the model's ability to discover software security exploits poses risks. The restricted rollout strategy mirrors planned approaches by OpenAI and may serve dual purposes: managing security concerns while preventing smaller competitors from using distillation techniques to replicate frontier model capabilities.

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Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos model, finds thousands of OS vulnerabilities via Project Glasswing

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model designed for cybersecurity that has already discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The model is being distributed as a preview to over 40 organizations and major technology partners including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services through Project Glasswing, a coordinated cybersecurity initiative.

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Anthropic previews Mythos, claims it found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in cybersecurity initiative

Anthropic unveiled a preview of Mythos, a frontier model it claims is the most powerful in its Claude lineup, for use in Project Glasswing—a cybersecurity initiative with 40+ partner organizations. According to Anthropic, Mythos identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, many critical and up to two decades old, during early testing. The model will not be made generally available and is restricted to defensive security work by vetted partners.

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