It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

Across all these projects and many more, the model identified thousands of vulnerabilities in code. These are the types of issues that can allow ransomware to shut down hospitals. They’re how cyberattacks can disrupt critical infrastructure. And they’re how foreign intelligence services can compromise government networks.

Last week, Anthropic announced that its newest artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview, would not be released to the public, after the company learned it was capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities that have gone undetected in critical software systems for decades. Instead, Anthropic gave access to Mythos — and $100 million in credits to use it — to more than 50 of the world’s largest organizations, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and JPMorgan Chase, as part of a defensive cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing.