EU cybersecurity agency is now testing Mythos 5 and GPT-6 Astra, the Commission says
ENISA, the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, has been given access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it alongside OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, a European Commission spokesperson said on Thursday.
Reuters reported the confirmation, bringing an end to a process that has been unfolding since spring. Anthropic announced in April that Mythos could outperform humans at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities. ENISA is now testing the model in September.
The comparison with OpenAI is what makes the timing interesting. GPT-6 Astra was released on 3 September, with OpenAI warning about its cyber capabilities.
ENISA had access to it within about a week. Mythos took five months from Anthropic’s original announcement, and more than three months from June, when the company agreed in principle to give ENISA access.
There was plenty of pressure in between. In May, 30 MEPs from six political groups wrote to Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, warning...
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