Claude Mythos and the Return of the Analog Circuit Breaker
The internet just blew up with articles and reactions to Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview model, and the tone is almost apocalyptic. The headlines are understandable. According to Anthropic’s own technical disclosure, Mythos was able to identify and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser tested, including bugs that had remained undetected for decades. Anthropic says the model found a now-patched 27-year-old OpenBSD bug, autonomously chained multiple vulnerabilities into working exploits, and performed far beyond its previous public models on exploit-development benchmarks. Because of that, Anthropic chose not to release Mythos publicly and instead restricted access through Project Glasswing, a defensive-security initiative involving companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, CrowdStrike, JPMorganChase, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks, and the Linux Foundation. This is not just another AI produc...