Why Anthropic Won’t Release Mythos to the Public: Explainer

April 10, 2026, 7:06 PM UTC

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to give them an urgent warning: an artificial intelligence tool from Anthropic PBC marks the beginning of a new era of cybersecurity.

The April 7 meeting in Washington was focused on Mythos, a new AI model that Anthropic says is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can only be released to a limited number of carefully-chosen parties. If tools like Mythos fall into the wrong hands, Anthropic says, it could provide attackers with a powerful new weapon to ...

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