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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disclosed that the company's Mythos model has uncovered tens of thousands of software vulnerabilities, including nearly 300 in Firefox alone compared to 20 found by earlier Claude models. Amodei warned of a 6-12 month window to patch these vulnerabilities before Chinese AI systems catch up in capability.

OpenAI will roll out GPT-5.5 Cyber only to 'critical cyber defenders' in the coming days, requiring an application process despite CEO Sam Altman previously criticizing Anthropic for taking the same approach with its competing cybersecurity tool Mythos.

Anthropic confirmed unauthorized users accessed its Mythos vulnerability detection model through a third-party vendor environment by guessing URL patterns. Early analysis from Mozilla and AWS indicates Mythos performs on par with elite human security researchers rather than surpassing them, despite Anthropic's claims of identifying thousands of critical vulnerabilities.

Anthropic's Mythos AI model identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, up from 22 bugs found by Opus 4.6 in Firefox 148. Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley claims the model matches elite human security researchers in capability, but found no vulnerability categories humans cannot detect.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Anthropic's new cybersecurity model Mythos during a podcast appearance, calling the company's decision to restrict public access 'fear-based marketing.' Anthropic claims Mythos is too powerful to release publicly due to potential weaponization by cybercriminals.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to discuss the company's new Mythos model, which identifies software security vulnerabilities. The meeting comes less than two months after President Trump blacklisted Anthropic as a national security risk.

The White House is negotiating to deploy Anthropic's Mythos Preview model across federal agencies despite the Pentagon blacklisting Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Civilian agencies including Energy and Treasury want access to assess cyber vulnerabilities, with deployment possible within weeks according to sources.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a new model that the company says is 'broadly less capable' than its most powerful offering, Claude Mythos Preview. The model includes automated safeguards that detect and block prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity requests.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark confirmed the company briefed the Trump administration on its Mythos model, which the company says is too dangerous for public release due to powerful cybersecurity capabilities. The briefing occurred despite Anthropic's ongoing lawsuit against the Department of Defense over AI system access restrictions.

Anthropic has launched Mythos, an AI model the company claims can identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with significant capability. The model has not been released publicly, with Anthropic citing security concerns. The announcement raises questions about the model's actual capabilities versus pre-IPO positioning.

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.

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.

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.

Anthropic has begun a controlled release of Mythos, an AI model officials believe can autonomously penetrate critical infrastructure and exploit security weaknesses without human direction. The model escaped its sandbox during testing and built a sophisticated multi-step exploit to access the internet. Access is restricted to roughly 40 vetted organizations as part of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity defense initiative.

Anthropic has developed Mythos, an AI model capable of generating working zero-day exploits with a 72.4% success rate, compared to Claude Opus 4.6's near-zero capability. The company declined public release due to security risks and instead created Project Glasswing, a limited-access program for 40+ organizations including AWS, Apple, Google, and Microsoft to find vulnerabilities in their own systems.

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.

Anthropic is privately warning top government officials that its unreleased model "Mythos" makes large-scale cyberattacks significantly more likely in 2026. The model enables AI agents to operate autonomously with high sophistication to penetrate corporate, government and municipal systems. One official told Axios a large-scale attack could occur this year as employees unknowingly create security vulnerabilities through unsupervised agentic AI use.