Anthropic keeps latest AI tool out of public’s hands for fear of enabling widespread hacking

Anthropic has developed an AI model called Claude Mythos that is unusually good at finding software vulnerabilities (security weaknesses in code), and it discovered thousands of these flaws in commonly-used applications that don't yet have fixes available. The company decided not to release Mythos widely to the public because they worry it could enable widespread hacking, and instead partnered with cybersecurity specialists to improve defenses before wider distribution.