Did Anthropic just soft-launch the scariest AI model yet?

The company’s Claude Mythos Preview model is remarkably good at harming or hijacking other systems. Anthropic’s first application of the model is in a defensive cybersecurity role. 

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Did Anthropic just soft-launch the scariest AI model yet? 

On Tuesday Anthropic announced that it would deploy its newest and most powerful AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, to a new industry initiative (Project Glasswing) meant to safeguard critical software infrastructure against cyberattacks. That sounded good, but it obscured the real news somewhat—that one of the big three........

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