The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking

Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan and fix their own software.

The announcement requires context – but it contained an essential truth.

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