OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company's most powerful AI yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company. Why it matters: He'll tout a model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old math problem, breach another company's system unprompted and begin to make complex work more cost-efficient for U.S. business. What Sam will show: - It does original science. An internal model solved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance problem, the first prominent open math problem cracked autonomously by AI and verified by outside mathematicians. - It allows government and business to unleash swarms of agents, working together, without rest, on complex business areas. Legal, finance and…
Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.
Anthropic is rolling out a preview of its new Mythos model only to a handpicked group of tech and cybersecurity companies over concerns about its ability to find and exploit security flaws , the company said Tuesday. Why it matters: Anthropic is so worried about the damage its own model could cause that it's refusing to release it publicly until there are safeguards to control its most dangerous capabilities. Threat level: Mythos Preview is "extremely autonomous" and has sophisticated reasoning capabilities that give it the skills of an advanced security researcher, Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's frontier red team, told Axios. - Mythos Preview can find "tens of thousands of vulnerabilities" that even the most advanced bug hunter…
Suspected North Korean hackers are believed to be behind an ongoing compromise of the widely used open-source package Axios, which is downloaded millions of times per week, researchers at Google said Tuesday. Why it matters: Hackers briefly turned a widely trusted developer tool into a vehicle for credential-stealing malware that could give attackers ongoing access to infected systems. - Axios, a widely used JavaScript library for making HTTP requests, is not affiliated with Axios Media. Driving the news: Researchers at Google linked the activity to a North Korean group tracked as UNC1069 , which has previously targeted cryptocurrency and decentralized finance companies. - Earlier this week, a maintainer account for the Axios npm…
Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous. Driving the news: Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the latest version of its largest AI model, on Thursday. - Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code. - The team gave the Claude model everything it needed to do the job — access to Python and vulnerability analysis tools, including classic…