Stephanie Hughes

AI companies are having to self-edit what they put out in the world.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

It's Friday, time for Marketplace Tech Bytes.

This week, a Wisconsin city votes to restrict future data center development.

Plus, the astronauts on Artemis II take their journey to social media.

But first, Anthropic announced this week it has a new AI model called Cloud Mythos Preview.

The company says it's extremely good at finding security vulnerabilities.

So good that Anthropic is not releasing the model to the general public.

Instead, it's granting access to a group of over 40 companies and tech organizations, including Google, JPMorgan Chase, and Cisco.

This collaboration is called Project Glasswing.

I talked about it with Joanna Stern, founder of the media company NewThings.

Yeah.

Years ago, I produced an interview with the sci-fi author William Gibson, where he said that he's come up with some ideas that he's put into his manuscripts and then taken out because he didn't want the ideas to proliferate.

And this move from Anthropic kind of reminded me of that in a way.

And it made me wonder, how often do you think AI companies are going to need to self-edit in the future?

It makes me wonder if this could hurt revenue for these companies, but also kind of be good marketing at the same time.

There is a whole cybersecurity industry of extremely talented humans who are good at spotting vulnerabilities.

How do you think this new model and others like it could affect how that industry functions?

Yeah.