What threat do Claude Mythos and ‘hacktivist attacks at scale’ pose to retail?

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Claude developer Anthropic claimed earlier this month that it had developed a new AI model capable of finding hidden vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. With retail already a particularly vulnerable target, how much of a threat is this new tech?

The new model, Mythos, is so powerful, Anthropic claims, that it is not being released to the public. Instead, it is being shared with a select group of big tech firms, financial services companies and some governments. In its blog post announcing the model, Anthropic said that while previous models were able to discover vulnerabilities, Mythos is showing increasing aptitude at exploiting them in controlled tests.

 

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