AI Model Too Powerful to Release: Anthropic’s Mythos Unveiled for Cyber Defense

This new model has found thousands of previously unknown security weaknesses – including serious flaws in all major operating systems and web browsers. Remarkably, many of these flaws had gone unnoticed for years, even after extensive human and automated security checks. For example, it discovered a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a famously secure operating system, that had existed for 27 years. It also found a flaw in FFmpeg, a widely used video library, despite the problematic code being checked by automated tools over five million times.




