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Anthropic's Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say the threat was already here

CNBC · May 8, 2026, 1:07 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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  • There's just one problem: the capability they're worried about is already here.
  • Cybersecurity experts and artificial intelligence researchers told CNBC that the software vulnerabilities revealed by Mythos can be found using existing models, including those from Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Global banks, tech giants and governments were sent scrambling last month to contain the risks posed by Mythos, the Anthropic model said to be so powerful that it has found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in the world's software infrastructure.

There's just one problem: the capability they're worried about is already here.

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