Bessent, Powell warn bank CEOs on risks from Anthropic's Mythos AI

Anthropic restricted Mythos to 12 launch partners through an initiative called Project Glasswing, committing up to $100 million in usage credits for defensive security work. Launch partners include Amazon $AMZN Web Services, Apple $AAPL, Broadcom $AVGO, Cisco $CSCO, CrowdStrike $CRWD, Google $GOOGL, JPMorgan, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft $MSFT, Nvidia $NVDA, and Palo Alto Networks $PANW. More than 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure also received access. Reuters reported that access is limited to about 40 technology companies including Microsoft and Google, while Bloomberg reported that Amazon and Apple are among the restricted recipients; the sources differ on the precise composition of that group.

During testing, Anthropic used Mythos to identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, including a flaw dating back 27 years in OpenBSD and a vulnerability in the video processing library FFmpeg that had gone undetected across five million passes by automated testing tools. Anthropic has noted that no specialized cybersecurity training went into building Mythos -- its ability to find vulnerabilities stems from general advances in coding and reasoning.