Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, prompting the Fed chair and Treasury secretary to convene bank CEOs. The company warns of a six-to-twelve month window before adversaries replicate the capability.
Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries build models that can do the same thing. The cybersecurity industry says the threat was already here. Both are right.
Claude Mythos Preview is the model. It is not yet publicly released. In controlled testing, it surpassed all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, identifying flaws that had existed undetected for decades, including a 27-year-old bug in...
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