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UK regulators rush to assess risks of latest Anthropic AI model: Report
British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government's cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential vulnerabilities in critical IT systems highlighted by Anthropic's latest AI model, the FT said, citing two people briefed on the talks. Anthropic did not respond to a Reuters' request for comment. The BoE, FCA and NCSC declined to comment. The UK Treasury was not immediately available for comment. Representatives from major British banks, insurers and exchanges are expected to be briefed on the cyber security risks posed by the model, Claude Mythos Preview, at a meeting with regulators in the next fortnight, the newspaper said. Reuters could not immediately verify details of the report. Reuters reported on Friday, citing two sources, that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had called a meeting with major Wall Street banks on the model's cyber risk potential. AI startup Anthropic has said the model is being deployed as part of "Project Glasswing", a controlled initiative under which select organizations are permitted to use the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive cyber security purposes. In a blog post earlier this month, Anthropic said the model had already identified thousands of major vulnerabilities across operating systems, web browsers and other widely used software.
UK regulators rush to assess risks of latest Anthropic AI model: Report
British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government's cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential vulnerabilities in critical IT systems highlighted by Anthropic's latest AI model, the FT said, citing two people briefed on the talks.
From AI to everything: How Anthropic is taking on tech's old guard
Anthropic is disrupting the enterprise software market by launching AI tools that directly compete with established vendors. Their new plug-ins for legal, financial, HR, and sales automation, followed by a cybersecurity tool, are impacting stock prices and challenging traditional software models with advanced reasoning capabilities. Anthropic has been a cautious AI company since inception, preoccupied with safety and slightly reluctant to race. While that image remains, there is a quieter reality taking shape. In just six months, Anthropic has moved into new markets, some occupied by its own partners and customers, and the broader enterprise software industry. The application layer Until early 2026, the AI value chain had a clean separation. Foundation model companies built the models, and application-layer companies like Salesforce built the workflow automation solutions. Everyone stayed in their lane. That changed in January, when Anthropic launched Cowork plug-ins covering legal research, financial modelling, HR and sales automation, functions that established software vendors had built entire businesses around. This triggered nearly $1 trillion in cumulative losses across stocks of global software, financial, data, and professional services firms, several of which were Anthropic partners. Claude for Financial Services had integrated with FactSet, PitchBook, Morningstar, Daloopa, and S&P Global, before the Claude-maker's tools competed directly with their core products. Cybersecurity This repeated on February 23. Anthropic announced Claude Code Security, a tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches. CrowdStrike, Datadog, and Zscaler fell 11%, while Fortinand Okta dropped 6%. SentinelOne declined 5%, Palo Alto Networks 3%. The Global X Cybersecurity ETF hit its lowest level since November 2023. Incumbent security vendors are not standing still, but their products are built on known threat signatures and pattern detection. Claude's approach is open-ended reasoning across an unfamiliar codebase. It operates more like a high-level security researcher than a software scanner. The tool maps data flows across thousands of files, identifies complex business logic flaws, and suggests targeted software patches for human review. This shifts the focus from merely "flagging" a problem to providing a ready-to-deploy solution, drastically reducing the Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR) for developers. What does this mean? Anthropic seems to find categories where Claude's reasoning capabilities outperform existing tools, builds solutions, and deploys them for enterprise customers. A CNBC report cites an investor who says that while OpenAI has had to market six different products, Anthropic identified a sticky use case in code generation and pursued it relentlessly. Code generation led to developer security. Together, they justified the broader enterprise productivity push. Anthropic's image got an unexpected fillip from the dispute with the US Department of War. Business software subscriptions have grown from the beginning of the year till February, the peak of the controversy, while OpenAI's subscription share fell 1.5% in the same period.
UK regulators, banks discuss Anthropic AI cyber risks
UK financial watchdogs are in urgent discussions with cyber security experts and top banks. They are examining potential dangers from Anthropic's new artificial intelligence model. This model is being used for defensive cyber security. It has already found many vulnerabilities in software. Banks and insurers will be briefed on these risks soon. British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government's cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential vulnerabilities in critical IT systems highlighted by Anthropic's latest AI model, the FT said, citing two people briefed on the talks. Anthropic did not respond to a Reuters' request for comment. The BoE, FCA and NCSC declined to comment. The UK Treasury was not immediately available for comment. Representatives from major British banks, insurers and exchanges are expected to be briefed on the cyber security risks posed by the model, Claude Mythos Preview, at a meeting with regulators in the next fortnight, the newspaper said. Reuters could not immediately verify details of the report. Reuters nL4N40T024 reported on Friday, citing two sources, that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had called a meeting with major Wall Street banks on the model's cyber risk potential. AI startup Anthropic has said the model is being deployed as part of "Project Glasswing nL4N40Q0LK", a controlled initiative under which select organizations are permitted to use the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive cyber security purposes. In a blog post earlier this month, Anthropic said the model had already identified thousands of major vulnerabilities across operating systems, web browsers and other widely used software. (Reporting by Mihika Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Christina Fincher and Alexander Smith)
Anthropic Mythos AI: Cybersecurity's new frontier or hacker's dream?
Wall Street banks are testing Anthropic's powerful Mythos AI for cybersecurity, amid concerns it could be a weapon for hackers. The AI's ability to autonomously scan code for vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale has prompted high-level meetings with financial regulators. Experts anticipate a surge in vulnerability discovery and a new era of "agent-to-agent war" in cyberspace. Anthropic postponing the release of its new AI model Claude Mythos, said to be so skilled at coding it could be a wicked weapon for hackers, has encountered a mix of alarm and skepticism. The company is among several contenders in a fierce artificial intelligence race. Promoting the awe of Anthropic's own technology boosts business and enhances its allure in the event it soon goes public, as is rumored. "The world has no choice but to take the cyber threat associated with Mythos seriously," said David Sacks, an entrepreneur and investor who heads President Donald Trump's council of advisors on technology. "But it's hard to ignore that Anthropic has a history of scare tactics." Mythos has sparked fears of hackers commanding armies of AI agents able to break through computer defenses with ease. At this week's HumanX AI conference in San Francisco, Alex Stamos of startup Corridor, which addresses AI safety, acknowledged a real threat from agentic hackers. And Stamos quipped about what he referred to as Anthropic's "marketing schtick." "They have these adorable cutesy cartoons about these products that are so incredibly dangerous that they won't even lpeople use them," Stamos said of the San Francisco-based startup. "It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon." The heads of America's biggest banks met this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to weigh the security implications of the yet-to-be released Claude Mythos, according to reports Friday. "Mythos model points to something far more consequential than another leap in artificial intelligence," Cato Networks co-founder and chief executive Shlomo Kramer said in a blog post. "It signals a shift that could redefine the balance between attackers and defenders in cyberspace." A tightly restricted preview of Mythos was shared with partner organizations this week, under an initiative called Project Glasswing. They include Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, CrowdStrike and JPMorgan Chase. According to Anthropic and partners, Mythos can autonomously scan vast amounts of code to find and chain together previously unknown security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software, from operating systems to web browsers. Crucially, they warn, this can be done at a speed and scale no human could match, meaning it could be used to bring down banks, hospitals or national infrastructure within hours. "What once required elite specialists can now be performed by software agents," Shlomo said. "The immediate consequences will be a surge in vulnerability discovery, a true tsunami" of exploiting known and unknown vulnerabilities. Agent-to agent war At HumanX, the apparent consensus was that it makes sense that AI agents already adept at coding will excel at finding weaknesses in software. "We're not in an era where human beings can write code when we have superhuman (AI models) that are then going to find bugs in it," Stamos contended. "It's just not possible." He predicted the coming dynamic will involve humans supervising AI agents to protect networks against hackers using that same technology to attack. Stamos referred to it as "agent-to-agent war," with humans on the sidelines giving advice. Wendy Whitmore, of cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, expects "some sort of catastrophic attack" this year connected to AI agent capabilities. "The thing that keeps me up at night is that we're staring down the barrel of a massive influx of new vulnerabilities that are going to be found by AI," said Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike. Meyers saw embedding a tiny AI model directly into malicious code infecting networks as a natural tactic to be explored by hackers. "The ultimate weapon would be malware that has no pre-programming," Meyers said. "It can do whatever you ask it to."
Fears of Anthropic's latest model reach UK, biggest British banks, insurers and exchanges warned that...
Anthropic's latest model, Claude Mythos, may now be raising concerns among the UK's financial institutions. According to a report by The Financial Times (FT), financial regulators are holding urgent discussions with the UK government's main cybersecurity watchdog and the country's biggest banks to assess risks linked to the model's ability to identify vulnerabilities in key IT systems. Officials from the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority, and HM Treasury are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre, while leading British banks, insurers, and exchanges are expected to be warned about potential cybersecurity risks at a meeting scheduled in the coming fortnight.The response follows a move by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has summoned leaders of major Wall Street banks to discuss the model's advanced capability to detect cybersecurity weaknesses that could be exploited by bad actors. Anthropic, which recently released the Claude Mythos Preview to select customers, said the model has already "found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser", some of which have gone undetected for decades. The company added that it may be "not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely", warning that "the fallout -- for economies, public safety, and national security -- could be severe."The report claims that the potential impact of the new AI model will be discussed at the next meeting of the UK's Cross Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG). This meeting will bring together the UK's regulators and financial services companies to address sector-wide risks. CMORG is co-chaired by Duncan Mackinnon, the Bank of England's executive director for supervisory risk, and David Postings, head of the UK Finance trade body for banks. Its members also include senior representatives from eight major UK banks, four financial infrastructure providers, two insurers, the NCSC, the FCA, and HM Treasury. David Raw, managing director for resilience at UK Finance, told FT, "We are aware of the press reports on the Anthropic AI development and the risks highlighted. UK Finance engages with our members and, through our public/private partnerships, on any significant operational risks that could affect the resilience of the UK financial services sector."The Bank of England also has the option to convene a meeting with financial institutions within one to two hours through its Cross Market Business Continuity Group in case of an urgent threat, although it has not done so in this instance. This announcement comes after several major UK companies, including retailers M&S, the Co-op Group, and Harrods, as well as Jaguar Land Rover, were targeted by cyberattacks last year that disrupted their operations.Meanwhile, the UK's AI Security Institute, the government's unit for testing and researching risks in advanced AI models, has been evaluating Anthropic's Mythos alongside other models such as Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, the report adds.The government is also considering introducing standardised testing for general-purpose AI models used by UK lenders, following concerns raised by the Bank of England last year. The BoE's Prudential Regulation Authority told bank executives in two meetings in October 2025 that their AI model monitoring was "not frequent enough," the report cited slides from the events to claim.
Rampaging Billy Goat Sparks Chaos in Quiet Wiltshire Village
It started as a typical, sleepy morning in Upper Seagry, Wiltshire - the kind of village where the loudest noise is usually a passing tractor. That was until a rogue billy goat decided to stir things up. Village Mayhem as Goat Goes on the Rampage The stubborn goat charged through gardens, chased a local woman, and cheekily helped himself to the oranges off her Christmas wreath. Neighbours had had enough and called 999, reporting the furry troublemaker's orange-stealing antics. Wiltshire Police vs. The Unruly Goat PC Ferris and PC Miller arrived to find the goat sprinting through the village with zero intention of playing nice. This wasn't a simple animal rescue. * Riot shields were deployed * A lasso came out to try to wrangle the stubborn beast After a tense tug-of-war - including the goat slipping free once - officers finally got the beast under control. The goat was safely returned to a very relieved owner. Just Another Day on the Beat As PC Ferris put it, "No two shifts are the same." One minute you're on a quiet patrol, the next you're locking horns with an orange-loving, rampaging goat. Proper job from Wiltshire Police.
Should You Be Using Polymarket to Invest in Crypto?
And prediction contracts usually don't answer the most important questions to ask for investing anyway. The popular betting market Polymarket now hosts more than 5,400 active crypto markets where participants wager on everything from whether Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) will close above $72,000 this week to whether Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) will hit a new all-time high by year-end. And with investors everywhere looking for an edge in turbulent market conditions, it's quite tempting to treat its predictions as a cheat sheet for what coins will do next. But prediction market odds aren'tinvestment research even if they could have a role. Let's dig into the insights these platforms can offer and the role they can play in your investment process. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue " Image source: Getty Images. As you may have heard, a prediction market is a system that lets participants buy and sell contracts tied to a yes-or-no outcome of a real-world event. If you think Bitcoin will surpass $75,000 by the end of the month, you buy a "yes" share at whatever price the market sets, and that price reflects the crowd's implied probability of the event occurring. The unstated assumption here is that the people trading on the prediction markets are, as a group, able to accurately weight those probabilities such that the underlying outcomes actually occur approximately as frequently as they're predicted to. But it's critical to appreciate that Polymarket's odds measure binary event resolution (did Bitcoin close above $X?) rather than the trajectory of an asset's price over the many years of a long-term investment. A coin's closing price on a given Friday reveals almost nothing about where it's heading over a five-year holding period, which is the time horizon you should probably be focused on if you intend to invest in the crypto majors like Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, (CRYPTO: XRP) or Solana (CRYPTO: SOL). There's a data integrity issue, too. A recent Columbia University study found that nearly 25% of Polymarket's historical trading volume appeared to be the result of wash trading, where participants trade to artificially inflate activity. Therefore, any derived probability carries a serious asterisk, as a large portion of the volume used to create it might be fake. Furthermore, prediction markets are also extremely susceptible to cognitive and behavioral biases. Participants tend to overvalue low-probability outcomes and undervalue near-certainties, and ill-advised bandwagons form quickly on social media. Lastly, many Polymarket participants are short-term speculators. They probably aren't evaluating key factors like tokenomics or competitive dynamics. It's thus not appropriate to rely heavily on prediction markets for yourinvestment research Nor is it, for the record, a good way to diversify your portfolio; while some professional investors or traders might be able to intelligently incorporate an allocation to prediction market contracts into a hedged strategy of some sort, it's far too complex an approach for most people to bother with. So, at the very most, Polymarket data can serve as a minor data point in your broaderinvestment researchworkflow. But even that may overstate its usefulness for assets like Bitcoin, where long-term value hinges on fundamentals that aren't reducible to a contract resolving tomorrow. Before you buy stock in Bitcoin, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now... and Bitcoin wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $555,526!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,156,403!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 968% -- a market-crushing outperformance compared to 191% for the S&P 500. Don't miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors. Alex Carchidi has positions in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. Banks - IT Security News
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Should You Be Using Polymarket to Invest in Crypto? | The Motley Fool
And prediction contracts usually don't answer the most important questions to ask for investing anyway. The popular betting market Polymarket now hosts more than 5,400 active crypto markets where participants wager on everything from whether Bitcoin (BTC 1.00%) will close above $72,000 this week to whether Ethereum (ETH 1.46%) will hit a new all-time high by year-end. And with investors everywhere looking for an edge in turbulent market conditions, it's quite tempting to treat its predictions as a cheat sheet for what coins will do next. But prediction market odds aren't investment research, even if they could have a role. Let's dig into the insights these platforms can offer and the role they can play in your investment process. As you may have heard, a prediction market is a system that lets participants buy and sell contracts tied to a yes-or-no outcome of a real-world event. If you think Bitcoin will surpass $75,000 by the end of the month, you buy a "yes" share at whatever price the market sets, and that price reflects the crowd's implied probability of the event occurring. The unstated assumption here is that the people trading on the prediction markets are, as a group, able to accurately weight those probabilities such that the underlying outcomes actually occur approximately as frequently as they're predicted to. But it's critical to appreciate that Polymarket's odds measure binary event resolution (did Bitcoin close above $X?) rather than the trajectory of an asset's price over the many years of a long-term investment. A coin's closing price on a given Friday reveals almost nothing about where it's heading over a five-year holding period, which is the time horizon you should probably be focused on if you intend to invest in the crypto majors like Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, (XRP 0.39%) or Solana (SOL 0.52%). There's a data integrity issue, too. A recent Columbia University study found that nearly 25% of Polymarket's historical trading volume appeared to be the result of wash trading, where participants trade to artificially inflate activity. Therefore, any derived probability carries a serious asterisk, as a large portion of the volume used to create it might be fake. Furthermore, prediction markets are also extremely susceptible to cognitive and behavioral biases. Participants tend to overvalue low-probability outcomes and undervalue near-certainties, and ill-advised bandwagons form quickly on social media. Lastly, many Polymarket participants are short-term speculators. They probably aren't evaluating key factors like tokenomics or competitive dynamics. It's thus not appropriate to rely heavily on prediction markets for your investment research. Nor is it, for the record, a good way to diversify your portfolio; while some professional investors or traders might be able to intelligently incorporate an allocation to prediction market contracts into a hedged strategy of some sort, it's far too complex an approach for most people to bother with. So, at the very most, Polymarket data can serve as a minor data point in your broader investment research workflow. But even that may overstate its usefulness for assets like Bitcoin, where long-term value hinges on fundamentals that aren't reducible to a contract resolving tomorrow.
Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. Banks
Anthropic's new AI model, which is so good at detecting software vulnerabilities - and creating code to exploit them - that the vendor refused to widely release it, reportedly caught the attention of Trump Administration officials who felt it was dangerous enough to warn financial services organizations. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, late last week reportedly met with a group CEOs of a number of U.S. banks - including Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo - to warn them about the cybersecurity risks that Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview poses if it's used by nation-state or financially motivated bad actors. According to The New York Times, Bessent told the CEOs that deploying Mythos Preview could put their customers' sensitive data at risk. The CEOs already were in Washington D.C. for a lobby group meeting and CNBC described the get-together with Bessent and Powell as a "surprise meeting." A Treasury spokesperson told The New York Times that the meeting "was convened by Secretary Bessent to initiate a process for planning and coordination of our approach to the rapid developments taking place in AI." The meeting was first reported by Bloomberg. Financial regulators in the UK also are reviewing the cybersecurity implications of Mythos Preview, according the Financial Times, and Bloomberg reported that the Bank of England will discuss the AI model with banks in that country. Anthropic announced Mythos Preview earlier this month, noting that company scientists used the frontier model to find thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, many of them critical and some that have been around but undetected for decades. The flaws were found in every major operating system, and web browser. In a blog post about the frontier AI model, Anthropic executives credited its strong agentic coding and reasoning skills for it "powerful cyber capabilities." It was able to identify the vulnerabilities and create code to exploit them without any human intervention. "Claude Mythos Preview demonstrates a leap in these cyber skills - the vulnerabilities it has spotted have in some cases survived decades of human review and millions of automated security tests, and the exploits it develops are increasingly sophisticated," they wrote, adding that without needed safeguards, the cyber capabilities in frontier models like Mythos Preview "could be used to exploit the many existing flaws in the world's most important software. This could make cyberattacks of all kinds much more frequent and destructive, and empower adversaries of the United States and its allies." Anthropic is making Mythos Preview the foundation of Project Glasswing, an initiative to make software more secure. The company is making Mythos Preview available to a small number of organizations, including hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, security vendors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, and infrastructure and device vendors like Broadcom, Apple, and Nvidia. Also, JPMorgan Chase and The Linux Foundation will have access. The goal is to use the AI model to strengthen the security of their software. In addition, Anthropic has been speaking with U.S. government officials about the offensive and defensive capabilities of Mythos Preview, noting that securing the nation's critical infrastructure - a target of cyber operations of adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea - is a priority for the United States, as it is for other democratic countries. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, was on the only top executive of a U.S. bank who couldn't make it to the meeting with Bessent and Powell. In a letter to shareholders earlier this month, Dimon lauded the advantages that AI will bring, but also warned of the cybersecurity threats, from deepfakes to information to vulnerabilities. "These risks are real, but they are manageable if companies, regulators and governments prepare," he wrote. "The worst mistakes we can make are predictable: overreact at the first serious incident and regulate out important innovation or underreact and fail to learn from what went wrong." Anthropic has had its share recent security issues. A human error involving a release package led to the leaking of some of the internal source code for its Claude Code coding assistant. In addition, LayerX researchers last week said protections in Claude Code can easily be hacked and used as a tool to launch cyberattacks, hack into websites, and develop new vulnerabilities. This also comes as Anthropic pushes back at the U.S. Defense Department for labeling it as a supply chain risk that threatens national security. Company executives claim the Trump Administration is using the label to punish Anthropic for refusing to bend on limits for the use of its AI technology in warfare.
Why Anthropic's Project Glasswing matters, and what CISOs need to know
By becoming a member, I agree to receive information and promotional messages from Cyber Daily. I can opt out of these communications at any time. For more information, please visit our Privacy Statement. The reason? It's too good at what it does. According to the company, the model has already found vulnerabilities in operating systems and web browsers alike, some of which have been around for decades, but had not been identified before. In fact, 99 per cent of what Claude Mythos found had not been patched at all, making it a potentially dangerous tool in the wrong hands. A zero-day tsunami "The model is extremely effective at identifying software vulnerabilities that could lead to zero-day exploits," Danny Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of cyber security firm ThreatLocker, said on LinkedIn. "That same capability that helps defenders conduct penetration testing will also be used by attackers to find and exploit weaknesses at scale. Critical infrastructure systems are especially vulnerable, as many still rely on legacy systems the model can easily exploit." Jenkins, however, believes the focus on using AI to fight AI is incorrect. "While defenders should certainly use the same penetration testing tools that attackers use, the conversation of AI stopping AI risks is distracting us from something more immediate," Jenkins said. "There are proven steps that organisations can deploy today that do not depend on AI, and we must do so with urgency because Anthropic won't delay release indefinitely." Jenkins said that companies should instead focus on application containment to ensure that platforms can't bypass traditional controls. "My advice is straightforward: focus on controls that limit software behaviour, not just controls that detect what's already happened," Jenkins said. "Focus on what you can do today to make yourself more secure, rather than waiting for the next innovation." Doug Britton, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer of RunSafe Security, called Anthropic's announcement a "Watershed moment for AI's runaway zero-day discovery and exploitation". "AI is now uncovering memory safety bugs at massive scale, including vulnerabilities that have been hiding in production code for over 25 years - the problem isn't just that these bugs exist, it's that they're being found faster than organisations can fix them," Britton told Cyber Daily. "That means the traditional model (find, patch, repeat) can't keep up anymore. Security has to shift from trying to eliminate every bug to protecting systems even when those bugs are still there." Britton added that the Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing news shattered the illusion that just because software has been tested, it is therefore safe. "OpenBSD has been audited and fuzzed an uncountable number of times over 26 years by world-class researchers," Britton said. "Mythos still found a remotely exploitable bug. If that's possible there, it's possible anywhere." Britton's also concerned that this leap in technology could make traditional incident response mechanically impossible due to a "tsunami of zero-days across critical software". What a CISO needs to know A more salient question for CISOs than what Anthropic's new model may mean now, according to Douglas McKee, Director of Vulnerability Intelligence at Rapid7, however, is a more practical and immediate one. "CISOs do not need to decide this week whether Anthropic's model changes the entire market," McKee said in a blog post. "They do need to ask a more practical question: if my environment starts surfacing materially more vulnerabilities tomorrow, what happens next?" The answer, McKee said, is probably an uncomfortable one. "That is where this news becomes relevant. AI-driven discovery does not reduce the need for an exposure-led security model. It increases it. The organisations that benefit most will not be the ones with the biggest pile of findings. They will be the ones that can connect those findings to business-critical assets, internet exposure, identity paths, existing detections, remediation workflows, and validation," McKee said. "A good board-level translation is that faster discovery only has value if the organisation can prioritise effectively, remediate quickly, and prove that the fix reduced real exposure. Otherwise, the result is more volume and more noise."
How Anthropic's new AI tool for Microsoft Word may be 'problem' for Copilot
Anthropic is said to be taking another direct shot at Microsoft's dominance in the workplace. The AI startup has officially launched a beta version of Claude for Word, which is a specialised add-in designed to bring its advanced AI intelligence directly into the world's most popular word-processing software, a report by Business Insider said. With this, Anthropic's focus is specifically target legal and financial professionals.The report said that the new add-in is built for people who deal with complex documents - for legal reviews, drafting financial memos and intense editing sessions where accuracy is everything. On Saturday (April 11), the company revealed that Claude for Word will allow users to ask specific questions about their documents. Unlike a standard search, Claude provides answers with clickable citations, allowing users to jump directly to the section of the document the AI is referencing.Anthropic claims to have solved one of the biggest headaches when using AI: Edit professional documents is losing the formatting. Key features include:Style preservation: Claude can edit selected text while keeping the documents' specific numbering, styles and formatting perfectly intact.Tracked changes mode: To ensure human oversight, users can use a specialised mode that lets them accept or reject every single edit the AI makes, just like a traditional revision.Comment thread integration: Claude can actually "read" through comment threads left by colleagues, edit the text based on those suggestions, and then reply to the thread to explain what it changed.Last month, the company announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3. Now, instead of acting as a separate assistant, Copilot now integrates deeply into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, working alongside you from the first draft to the final polish. At the heart of this update is Work IQ. Unlike basic AI, Copilot stays grounded in users' unique professional context. It scans latest meetings, chats, and files to ensure every edit or suggestion is relevant to current projects and professional relationships.Copilot is moving beyond simple creation to active "heavy lifting".
SpaceX launches Cygnus XL with over 5 tonnes of supplies to ISS
WASHINGTON, 13th April, 2026 (WAM) -- SpaceX launched a massive cargo ship packed with over 5 tonnes of gear for astronauts on the International Space Station early Saturday, then aced a rocket landing minutes after the Florida liftoff. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into a blue sky over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT) on Saturday, sending Northrop Grumman's "Cygnus XL" resupply freighter toward the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, called NG-24, is Northrop Grumman's 24th resupply flight to the ISS for NASA. "And liftoff! Science and supplies soaring to the International Space Station aboard the S.S. Steven R. Nagel," NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones said during live commentary. Nagel's namesake Cygnus XL freighter will deliver about 11,000 pounds (4,990 kilogrammes) of science equipment and supplies to the astronauts aboard the station. That load-carrying capacity explains Cygnus XL's name: The original version of the freighter, which flew more than 20 missions to the ISS, maxed out at about 8,500 pounds (3,856 kg) of payload.
easyJet passengers 'vomiting and close to passing out' in border control chaos
Passengers were stuck in the queues for hours (Image: X/Emily_Benn20) easyJet travellers were left on the verge of collapse after being abandoned in sweltering conditions when their Manchester-bound flight departed without them amid border control turmoil. Approximately 100 passengers found themselves stranded in Milan on Sunday,April 12, after enduring queues of up to three hours at the city's Linate airport due to newly implemented border control procedures. Beyond worries about getting home, numerous travellers were reportedly vomiting and fainting because of the oppressive heat, the BBC reports. easyJet stated it was attempting to assist passengers but emphasised the circumstances were "outside of our control". Extensive queues developed at the international airport, creating pandemonium, reports the Mirror. Images and footage circulated on social media revealed chaotic scenes as massive queues snaked through the international terminal. The disruption follows the UK government's revised advice for those travelling to the European Schengen zone, which may now require them to register biometric information upon arrival. The introduction of the EU entry and exit system (EES) is a digital platform that supersedes the traditional practice of physically stamping passports during border processing. The carrier explained it delayed the aircraft for nearly an additional hour, but ultimately had to take off owing to crew working time regulations. Travellers have expressed frustration after arriving at the airport with ample time to spare, only to now face significant delays getting back home. Emily Benn, travelling from Grimsby with five companions on the 11am departure, now faces an alternative route to Gatwick instead of Manchester, resulting in a £400 taxi bill upon landing. Speaking to the M.E.N, she explained: "We got to the airport at 8am and our flight was due to leave Milan Linate at 11am. As soon as our gate came on the board, we went straight to it and there was already a huge queue. "The queue was for three separate flights, and there were hundreds of passengers all trying to get through. The new EES wasn't working, so we all had to be checked by two people on passport control. "It got to 11:20am and we were told the flight had left without us. They put us all on a shuttle bus and sent us back to the arrivals area, where we had to go back to the easyJet desk. "We were told to rebook flights, so have booked to Gatwick and will then pay £400 for a taxi back to Manchester as that's where our car is parked. We are a party of five adults and one child, who is due to have spinal surgery in a few days." Fellow travellers took to social media to describe the distressing ordeal. One wrote: "What a nightmare! "You abandoned me and 122 other passengers in Milan. You flew to Manchester with 34 onboard. "We queued for three hours and all the time the flight info remained at 'boarding' we were then told the delayed flight had left." An easyJet spokesperson commented: "We are aware that some passengers departing from Milan Linate today experienced longer than usual waiting times at passport control and we advised customers due to fly to allow additional time to make their way through the airport." They added: "We held flight EJU5420 from Milan to Manchester for nearly an hour to give passengers extra time but it had to then depart due to crew reaching their safety regulated operating hours. Customers who missed the flight have been offered a free flight transfer." The spokesperson continued: "We continue to urge border authorities to ensure they make full and effective use of the permitted flexibilities for as long as needed while EES is implemented, to avoid these unacceptable border delays for our customers. While this is outside of our control, we are sorry for any inconvenience caused."
Is X-Energy a Millionaire-Maker Stock?
Shares of nuclear power company X-Energy aren't available yet. Still, the company recently filed a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) under the NASDAQ ticker XE. The renewable energy company's shares could go radioactive, making investors millions, or they could bust, as the company presents a strong risk-reward ratio. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue " On the negative side, XE Energy lost money last year, and as a private company, there isn't much information yet about its finances. On the positive side, its IPO prospectus states that the market for small modular reactors (SMRs) could be worth $2.3 trillion by 2050. Here are three reasons why X-Energy could be a millionaire-maker stock. Image source: Getty Images. X-energy has attracted funding from Amazon, Dow, the Climate Pledge Fund, Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, and Ares Management. The first two are the most important because they are customers for the company's nuclear SMRs. The company is working with Dow in Texas to build a four-SMR-unit plant under the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration program. It also has at least 5 GW of projects that it plans to do with Amazon by 2039, and it has a commitment from British energy and services company Centrica for 6GW of SMRs. The primary driver for owning X-Energy is its proprietary Xe-100 reactor technology. Unlike the light-water reactors that dominate the current grid, the Xe-100 is a high-temperature helium-cooled reactor designed for more than just electricity. While the HTR-PM helium-cooled reactor is already operating in China, the Xe-100 is still awaiting approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the U.S. According to X-Energy, the Xe-100 produces high-temperature steam that can directly decarbonize heavy industrial processes, such as chemical manufacturing and hydrogen production. According to X-Energy, the Xe-100 is also considered safer than other designs because it relies on nature rather than machinery or human intervention to prevent a meltdown. The reactor's physics act like an automatic brake. If it gets too hot, the nuclear reaction naturally slows and stops on its own. Because the reactor doesn't produce an overwhelming amount of heat in one small spot, X-Energy says that leftover heat simply drifts away into the air. It doesn't need extra water or pumps to stay cool. The energy company's business model also benefits from its own TRISO-X fuel. According to X-Energy, each grain of uranium is enveloped by layers of ceramic that the company says is designed to prevent the release of radioactive materials even under extreme temperatures. By controlling its SMR's fuel supply, X-Energy creates a recurring revenue stream that would continue for the 40-to-60-year lifespan of the SMRs it sells. IPOs can create millionaires, but because most companies that go public are in their early stages and rarely profitable, there are significant risks. There are plenty of competitors lining up in the SMR space, and if a better design emerges, X-Energy's profits and share price would likely suffer. However, the company is well-financed and may be better suited to thrive than other small SMR companies. While the risks of regulatory delays and capital intensity remain, the combination of a diversified industrial client base, a proprietary fuel monopoly, and elite tech partnerships makes X-Energy a compelling candidate for a growth-oriented portfolio. When our analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, Stock Advisor's total average return is 968%* -- a market-crushing outperformance compared to 191% for the S&P 500. James Halley has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
How did Anthropic's Claude Mythos get limited?
Anthropic said it restricted release of its newest model, Claude Mythos, because it can find security exploits in software used by its users. That decision matters because it frames "capability" as a dual-use risk: the same strengths that make a model useful can also make it more effective at discovering vulnerabilities. Instead of broadly launching Mythos, Anthropic aimed to control exposure until it could better manage the potential downstream impact. The concern is not simply that the model could produce harmful instructions in the abstract, but that it could be leveraged to identify real-world weaknesses. The move lands in a period where multiple AI security headlines have emphasized systemic risk -- models being tested by financial institutions, scrutiny of how AI systems interact with infrastructure, and regulatory or policy debates about liability and safety reporting. Key implications: - Security researchers and defenders may benefit if controlled testing reveals practical threats faster. - Enterprises and regulators are likely to press for clearer guardrails, evaluation processes, and transparency on capabilities that touch cybersecurity. - Model vendors face a widening trade-off between shipping faster and keeping the public internet safe. Anthropic's stance also highlights a recurring pattern in frontier AI: organizations increasingly treat model deployment as an operational security decision, not just a product launch schedule. That approach may become more common as models gain exploit-finding or automation capabilities that blur the line between security research and offensive tooling.
Passengers 'vomiting and passing out' after 3-hour border control chaos in Milan
easyJet passengers were 'close to passing out' after being left in sweltering conditions as their Manchester-bound flight departed without them amid border control chaos. Approximately 100 people were left stranded in Milan on Sunday, April 12 following queues of up to three hours at Milan's Linate airport caused by new border control checks. Beyond worries about getting home, numerous passengers were reportedly vomiting and fainting due to the heat, according to the BBC. easyJet stated it was working to assist passengers but that the circumstances were "outside of our control". Massive queues developed at the international airport causing chaos, reports the Mirror. Images and footage posted online captured scenes of chaos as extensive queues built up at the international airport. The disruption follows the UK government's updated guidance for travellers to the European Schengen area, meaning they may need to register biometric information upon arrival. The introduction of the EU entry and exit system (EES) is a digital system that supersedes the physical stamping of passports during boarding control. The carrier explained that it held the aircraft for nearly an hour beyond schedule, but ultimately had to take off due to crew working time regulations. Passengers have expressed frustration after arriving at the airport with ample time, only to now face significant delays getting home. Emily Benn, from Grimsby, was travelling with five others on the 11am flight. Her replacement flight will now land at Gatwick instead of Manchester, leaving her facing a £400 taxi fare upon arrival. She told the M.E.N: "We got to the airport at 8am and our flight was due to leave Milan Linate at 11am. As soon as our gate came on the board, we went straight to it and there was already a huge queue. "The queue was for three separate flights, and there were hundreds of passengers all trying to get through. The new EES wasn't working, so we all had to be checked by two people on passport control. "It got to 11:20am and we were told the flight had left without us. They put us all on a shuttle bus and sent us back to the arrivals area, where we had to go back to the easyJet desk. "We were told to rebook flights, so have booked to Gatwick and will then pay £400 for a taxi back to Manchester as that's where our car is parked. We are a party of five adults and one child, who is due to have spinal surgery in a few days." Fellow passengers took to social media to describe the ordeal as a 'nightmare'. One user posted: "What a nightmare! "You abandoned me and 122 other passengers in Milan. You flew to Manchester with 34 onboard. "We queued for three hours and all the time the flight info remained at 'boarding' we were then told the delayed flight had left." An easyJet spokesperson said: "We are aware that some passengers departing from Milan Linate today experienced longer than usual waiting times at passport control and we advised customers due to fly to allow additional time to make their way through the airport. "We held flight EJU5420 from Milan to Manchester for nearly an hour to give passengers extra time but it had to then depart due to crew reaching their safety regulated operating hours. Customers who missed the flight have been offered a free flight transfer. "We continue to urge border authorities to ensure they make full and effective use of the permitted flexibilities for as long as needed while EES is implemented, to avoid these unacceptable border delays for our customers. While this is outside of our control, we are sorry for any inconvenience caused."
SpaceX Launches Cygnus XL With Over 5 Tonnes Of Supplies To ISS
WASHINGTON, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 13th Apr, 2026) SpaceX launched a massive cargo ship packed with over 5 tonnes of gear for astronauts on the International Space Station early Saturday, then aced a rocket landing minutes after the Florida liftoff. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into a blue sky over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT) on Saturday, sending Northrop Grumman's "Cygnus XL" resupply freighter toward the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, called NG-24, is Northrop Grumman's 24th resupply flight to the ISS for NASA. "And liftoff! Science and supplies soaring to the International Space Station aboard the S.S. Steven R. Nagel," NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones said during live commentary. Nagel's namesake Cygnus XL freighter will deliver about 11,000 Pounds (4,990 kilogrammes) of science equipment and supplies to the astronauts aboard the station. That load-carrying capacity explains Cygnus XL's name: The original version of the freighter, which flew more than 20 missions to the ISS, maxed out at about 8,500 pounds (3,856 kg) of payload.
Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world - IT Security News
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