With Mythos, Anthropic Deserves Support, Not a Blacklisting
Lets support the good actors, not penalize them.
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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic PBC did something few companies would ever consider: It spent billions to develop a product significantly better than any rival in the world’s hottest market…and refused to release it. The new model, called Mythos, has unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities. It found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, one of the most security-hardened operating systems on earth. It uncovered a 16-year-old flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had survived five million automated security tests without detection.
But instead of selling access, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a defensive consortium with Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and others, committed $100 million in credits, and briefed federal agencies on the risks. Mythos is too dangerous to deploy publicly and too valuable to lock away.