Claude Mythos is too dangerous for public consumption...

This week, Anthropic announced Mythos, a new AI model they claim is so powerful that its public release could have severe consequences for economies, public safety, and national security. This announcement has sparked widespread concern and debate. Some believe Mythos could revolutionize cybersecurity by identifying vulnerabilities, while others suspect Anthropic is employing a familiar tactic of generating hype before releasing a less impressive model. The core of the concern stems from Anthropic's internal testing, which reportedly found Mythos to be exceptionally adept at discovering zero-day vulnerabilities. Examples cited include a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg allowing for potential program crashes and data corruption, and a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD that could remotely crash machines. Mythos also allegedly exploited JavaScript engine bugs in major browsers, enabling data theft across websites and even direct access to the operating system's kernel. A particularly concerning discovery was a bug in the Linux kernel that allowed Mythos to gain full root access by altering a single bit in memory, making a password file writable. The video's presenter states that Mythos found more bugs in a few weeks than they had found in their entire life. In response to these potential dangers, US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reportedly held an urgent meeting with bank CEOs to discuss the security risks. Anthropic's CEO, Dario, is described as drawing inspiration from "House Harkonnen" by implementing "Project Glasswing." This initiative involves a consortium of companies that are significant financial contributors to Anthropic. The stated goal is to secure critical software by granting these select companies access to Mythos, with the assumption that Mythos is too dangerous for the general public but safe for large corporations and financial institutions. The plan is for this group to rapidly patch global software before other AI models reach similar capabilities. However, skepticism exists regarding Mythos's true capabilities. Anthropic has reportedly faced issues since internally using Mythos, including leaked source code, revelations about Mythos itself, and API outages. Furthermore, the methodology for discovering some exploits is questioned. For instance, the OpenBSD vulnerability was reportedly found through extensive parallel agent runs costing $20,000 in compute, a process that could potentially be replicated by other advanced models like Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.4 Pro. The claimed high success rate in finding Firefox exploits is also presented with the caveat that it was tested against a stripped-down version of the browser with security mitigations disabled. The presenter concludes that while Mythos will "almost certainly" not destroy the world, it likely represents a genuine advancement over Anthropic's current flagship model, Opus 4.6. The video then pivots to promote BrowserBase, a platform for building and deploying browser agents, as a sponsor.