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Toby Howell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Neil, we keep hearing mythos framed in this all-powerful light.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Some say its capabilities have been overstated and the fear-mongering only helps Anthropic.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

But the last-minute meeting shows that Wall Street is clearly talking about it.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

It is important, but also after we kind of covered this story last week when Mythos came out and Project Glasswing was announced, a lot of people said, how real are these vulnerabilities that Mythos so apparently uncovered?

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And an analysis from John Martindale for Tom's Hardware found that some of the bugs that they kind of highlighted are not as bad as they think.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

They flagged one vulnerability in a software called FFmpeg.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

That vulnerability had existed for 16 years already.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

No one knew why they included it in the report.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

There was another one around Linux that said that a lot of them had been recently passed.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

They were less severe in terms of how bad the vulnerabilities actually were.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So another separate kind of analysis found that

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Of the exploits found, they found 600 examples, but only 10 were severe vulnerabilities.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

So some of the people from the text circles are saying that, all right, Anthropic, you put out this messaging that mythos is this all-powerful thing, but maybe these devastating exploits that you're highlighting are not so devastating and not so pressing as you might have portrayed them to be.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

It was all smiles in Houston, but there was some tears actually being shed in the living room that I was watching with my fiance's family because there is just something about astronauts returning home that it hits you in the feels.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

You're just so happy they're safe.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

They went through so much.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

And I just want to read some of the quotes from the crew.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Victor Glover said, I have not processed what we just did, and I'm afraid to even start trying.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

Jeremy Hansen said, when you look up here, you're not looking at us.

Morning Brew Daily
US Plans Hormuz Blockade & Wall Street Bigwigs Nervous About Mythos

We're a mirror reflecting you.