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Cybersecurity veteran on Anthropic’s Mythos: ‘We’ve never had a problem finding vulnerabilities’

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Anthropic caused an industrywide panic last week when it announced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model with a knack for uncovering high-level cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Among its achievements, the model found a now-patched weak spot in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its security, that Anthropic claimed went undiscovered for 27 years.  It has also found “thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities” across open-source and closed-source programs, according to the company. Tech insiders and other experts subsequently freaked out over the potential for the large language model to upend cybersecurity, but one 25-year industry veteran is skeptical. David Lindner, chief information…

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