ANTHROPIC MYTHOS MODEL
Companies need to overhaul cybersecurity as AI accelerates vulnerability attacks: Report
Companies will need to fundamentally overhaul their cybersecurity strategies and increase investments in automated threat detection and vulnerability management as frontier artificial intelligence (AI) makes it easier for cyberattackers to identify and exploit software weaknesses, according to a McKinsey report.
Cert-In gets Mythos access, being careful with testing: Officials
Government agencies cannot download the AI’s source code or weights for running on their own, completely isolated or ‘air-gapped’ systems. Instead, to use Mythos, they must send their proprietary data, code, or network blueprints over the internet to Anthropic’s cloud servers.
Chinese AI model carries out complex cyberattacks in controlled tests, researchers say
Chinese firm Z.AI's flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular.
Anthropic tells California governor courts should be able to block risky AI models
Anthropic itself has faced government restrictions on its AI systems. The Trump administration in June ordered Anthropic to immediately restrict foreign access to its cyber-capable Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models, citing national security concerns. The US Commerce Department later lifted the order.
Ahead of IPO, Anthropic says safety-monitoring demands pushed customers to other providers
The Claude-maker said its safety approach could also create “foregone or delayed revenue opportunities” compared with rivals that prioritise faster releases, broader access or more permissive uses. It added that such decisions may reduce adoption, limit customer usage or make its products less attractive.
Timeline: Anthropic's path from AI startup to industry-defining IPO
Anthropic's IPO filing marks a significant step toward becoming the first public listing for a frontier AI lab. The company has raised a total of $3.5 billion in various funding rounds leading up to its IPO. Significant investments have come from major companies including Amazon.com and Alphabet's Google. Anthropic is currently projecting revenue of approximately $190 billion to $200 billion in 2028.
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon takes on OpenAI, Anthropic with focus on coding, research and reasoning
Google has made its AI model Gemini 4 Argon available globally for developers and enterprises through API access. This launch follows its prior limited access for selected cybersecurity professionals, enhancing its competitive edge. OpenAI and Anthropic have also released advancements in AI models recently.
Banking watchdogs ramp up AI scrutiny as stability fears mount, sources say
Banking regulators are intensifying their oversight of AI risks that could affect financial stability and cyber security. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England are probing banks about their AI usage. Concerns are rising about potential damages from cyber threats involving advanced AI models.
UK given access to safety-test latest AI models, minister says
Scrutiny of AI safety has intensified after developers including Anthropic and OpenAI disclosed instances of rogue or undesired behaviour by AI agents. Some industry figures have warned the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity.
Anthropic’s Claude went rogue, submitted fake tip to police in unsolved murder among several other incidents
In a baffling incident from July 2026, Anthropic's AI model Claude sent a bogus tip concerning an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia police. This breach went unnoticed until September. Upon realization, Anthropic alerted law enforcement after identifying the issue as spam. The company is now working on adjustments to its training process to mitigate similar incidents of rogue AI behavior in the future.
Anthropic opens its most powerful AI models to more security teams
Its partners under Glasswing, an initiative aimed at securing the world's most critical software, found at least 129,000 verified vulnerabilities between April and July. Anthropic's own open-source scanning found 5,500 more between April and October.
EU vows AI rules will protect Europeans. Will they?
The EU says its AI Act is strong enough to address risks from advanced AI systems, including loss-of-control incidents, but lawmakers and experts warn of gaps around liability, enforcement capacity and access to cutting-edge models. Concerns are also growing over whether Brussels has enough technical resources and political appetite to aggressively police mostly US-based AI companies.
ETtech Q&A: From Anthropic to OpenRouter, Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on how the firm bets on AI
Partners Matt Murphy and Venky Ganesan on the Anthropic bet, life beyond it, where the firm is putting its money now, and why India's AI future lies with young founders.
Frontier AI slowdown a distraction, compute is the real constraint: early Anthropic backer Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy called the slowing down "a bit of a red herring", and said compute, not intelligence, is the real constraint, in an interview with ET at the fund's headquarters in Menlo Park recently. A 20 or 30% moderation in pace, he explained, would not have a dramatic impact on foundation model companies. "The models are already intelligent enough to serve the market in front of us… which is an enormous market for AI companies," he said.
Anthropic warns government attitudes may hurt customer ties, IPO prospectus shows
Companies routinely warn that policy changes could affect their business, particularly government contractors. For example, SpaceX said in its IPO filing that maintaining strong relationships with US government agencies is critical to its business and warned that any deterioration in those relationships could materially harm its ability to retain existing business and win new opportunities.
Anthropic warns government attitudes may hurt customer ties, IPO prospectus shows
Anthropic, an AI company, cautions that government perceptions may jeopardize its business relationships and revenue. The firm has faced scrutiny regarding the risks of advanced AI technologies and their safety. Recent government actions have reportedly led to revenue losses and increased reputational harm for the company.
Visa joins growing alarm over AI-powered risks
Visa has open-sourced part of its AI-powered cyber defence system after "humbling" lessons from vulnerabilities exposed by AI models. Its President of Technology, Rajat Taneja, told Reuters the company had made its cyber defence system available as open-source software after weaknesses exposed by Anthropic's Mythos AI model earlier this year highlighted the scale of the challenge.
Anthropic’s Road to IPO: Funding, valuation, Claude growth and legal battles
Anthropic is preparing for a closely watched U.S. IPO after rapid growth in funding, valuation and revenue. The Claude maker faces legal and regulatory challenges while expanding AI capabilities, cloud partnerships and commercial operations. Its potential listing could offer investors insight into frontier AI economics, governance, capital requirements and growth expectations.
Anthropic's path from AI startup to industry-defining IPO
Anthropic's IPO prospectus, reviewed by Reuters, laid out a sweeping vision in which AI would reshape the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, as the Claude maker moved closer to what could be the first listing by a frontier AI lab.
Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote public good over market forces
Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new "Founder LLC" vehicle aimed at serving the common good, while insulating its leaders from market forces.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5
The company said Opus 5.5 performs on par with its Claude Fable 5.1 model on most tasks while costing 40% less to run on typical workloads than its predecessor, Claude Opus 5.
Palo Alto Networks unveils AI-powered cybersecurity service using Claude, GPT models
Hackers are increasingly using AI to find and exploit weaknesses in corporate networks, prompting cybersecurity firms to build defenses that can detect and respond to threats more quickly.
China's Z.ai disables AI coding assistant features after security issue
* Z.ai says bug originated from default-enabled feature * Rare security disclosure from Chinese AI lab * Independent review found user data was deleted from cloud --Z.ai By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Sept
China and the US are competing for AI dominance but have shared concerns over safety
On Sunday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after talks in New York with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng ahead of the meeting between Trump and Xi that the two countries discussed the setting up of a mechanism on AI dialogue and proposed a new "notification mechanism" for AI incidents that could impact national security.
What AI leaders and world governments have to say about 'AI doom' fears
AI industry leaders are split over how fast companies should develop the increasingly powerful technology: Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SpaceX's Elon Musk are seeking a coordinated slowdown, while Meta's Mark Zuckerberg favors market-led safeguards.
China's spy chief warns of national security risks from AI
The head of China's spy agency has warned that artificial intelligence endangers the country's national security, with foreign powers potentially using the technology to threaten social order. "Foreign intelligence agencies are deeply using technologies such as intelligent web crawlers, intelligent data mining, and intelligent profiling analysis to extensively collect and acquire sensitive information such as key national data, trade secrets, and citizens' personal privacy," Chen said.
How China is preparing for the risk of AI escaping human control
The U.S. and China are the two major driving forces of frontier AI development and the technology's global adoption. Both superpowers have been increasingly at loggerheads over each other's AI policies and industry practices, with these issues slated to feature prominently in bilateral talks later this month.
New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, cautioning Saturday that a swarm of AI agents might be able to take over the internet in six months to a year unless companies devoted more time to putting safeguards in place.
EU testing Mythos AI model after Anthropic grants access
The EU's cybersecurity agency has gained access to Mythos 5 and is currently testing the powerful artificial intelligence model developed by AI firm Anthropic, an EU spokesman said on Thursday. "Following our constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that the EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is now testing it," EU spokesman for digital affairs Thomas Regnier said.
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