Australia government working with Anthropic over cybersecurity vulnerabilities

SYDNEY, April 23 (Reuters) - Australia is working with software providers including Anthropic over potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities, a spokesperson for Home Affairs minister Tony Burke said ⁠on Thursday, following the firm's release of its Mythos AI model that has caused concern in several countries.

Designed for defensive cybersecurity tasks, Mythos' ⁠vast capabilities have sparked fears about the threat to traditional software security, ⁠after Anthropic said a preview had uncovered "thousands" of ⁠major vulnerabilities in "every major operating system ⁠and web browser".

Reporting by Alasdair Pal in Sydney; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman

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