Toby Howell

Anthropic has held back on releasing Mythos to the public, which it says can kneecap much of the modern web

by finding undiscovered vulnerabilities at an unprecedented rate.

The cybersecurity chops of Mythos affects banks, so the government wanted to make sure Wall Street is aware of the possible risks.

So they called the meeting to ensure everyone is adopting the proper precautions to defend their systems, according to Bloomberg.

Remember, Anthropic distributed Mythos only 40 or so organizations ahead of a public release, forming a sort of cybersecurity brain trust called Project Glasswing.

The company also briefed government officials on its capabilities before release.

The goal is to let big enterprises get ahead of bad actors who could use the new model to penetrate secure software.

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

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

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

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?

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.

They flagged one vulnerability in a software called FFmpeg.

That vulnerability had existed for 16 years already.

No one knew why they included it in the report.

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

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

So another separate kind of analysis found that

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

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.