Anthropic Just Released a Model So Dangerous They Gave It to Only Security Researchers

Today Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview — a general-purpose model that happens to be devastatingly good at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities. And they are not releasing it to the public. Instead, they launched Project Glasswing : a coordinated effort to give Mythos Preview to security researchers and major software vendors first. The goal? Fix the vulnerabilities before the capabilities proliferate to actors who will not use them responsibly. What makes Mythos different According to Anthropic's Red Team blog, Mythos Preview can: Find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser Chain together four vulnerabilities to write browser exploits that escape both renderer and OS sandboxes Construct local privilege escalation exploits using subtle race conditions and KASLR-bypasses Write remote code execution exploits on FreeBSD's NFS server that grant full root access to unauthenticated users The oldest bug it found? A 2