Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model is driving a surge in software updates, risking exposure of critical national infrastructure to hackers and prompting cyber security chiefs to demand better co-ordination between government and business.
Companies that have access to the San Francisco group’s new tool told the FT joint action “across the public and private sectors” was essential to support hospitals, banks and utilities vulnerable to the threats Mythos uncovered.
“The way I think about this is there is a world pre-Mythos and there is a world post-Mythos,” said Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer at tech group Cisco, one of the few companies given access to the model.