Claude's recent Mythos Preview is an AI crossing from assisting humans to outperforming them.

Such models uncover hidden patterns and solutions that even top experts have missed for decades.

This capability could transform logistics, healthcare, climate — when complexity overwhelms human cognition.

This is a first glimpse of superintelligence — just enough to change how we understand what’s now possible.

Something unusual just happened in AI—and it deserves more attention than it’s getting.

Recently, Anthropic announced a system it chose not to release openly. The model—Claude Mythos Preview—is reportedly so effective at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company is limiting access to a small group of organizations responsible for critical Internet infrastructure.

That alone should give us pause.

In cybersecurity, there’s a practice called “red teaming”—thinking like an attacker to expose weaknesses. It’s a craft that requires creativity, deep technical knowledge, and a kind of adversarial imagination. The best practitioners can uncover subtle flaws hidden inside enormously complex systems.

Anthropic is claiming that this AI can outperform nearly all of them. Not just faster. Not just cheaper. Better.

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