Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating

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Anthropic’s tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway.

According to Bloomberg, a “small group of unauthorized users” has had access to Mythos – whose existence was first revealed in a leak – since the day Anthropic announced plans to offer it to a select group of companies for testing. Anthropic says it is investigating. That’s a rough look for a company that has built its brand on taking AI safety seriously while touting the cybersecurity …

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