Anthropic · Wired
Some are extremely skeptical of Anthropic's argues
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And then there's the ick factor that Anthropic will almost certainly benefit financially from positioning its latest model as mysterious, uniquely powerful, and exclusive.
Key facts
- With this in mind, the company is only releasing the new model to a few dozen organizations for now—including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and the Linux Foundation—as part of a consortium dubbed Project
- Zenla and others specifically point to one Mythos Preview capability as the pivot point
- Many companies are not capable of securing their infrastructure—that hasn’t changed from yesterday to today,” says longtime security engineer and researcher Niels Provos
- It's important that Mythos Preview gets in the hands of defenders to give a head start
Summary
Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview crosses a threshold of capabilities to discover vulnerabilities in virtually any and every operating system, browser, or other software product and autonomously develop working exploits for hacking. Some are extremely skeptical of Anthropic's claims. “I typically am skeptical of these things, and the open source community tends to be skeptical, but I do fundamentally feel like this is a real threat,” says Alex Zenla, chief technology officer of cloud security firm Edera. Zenla and others specifically point to one Mythos Preview capability as the pivot point.