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Anthropic Announces Zero-Day Exploit Writing LLM

Anthropic has released a blog post stating that they have been using their new Mythos LLM for cybersecurity purposes, and have found that it is good at writing zero-day exploits.

According to Anthropic, the model was not designed with this capability, but the company has discovered that it is much better at this task than their other frontier models. The company states that they have disclosed many bugs in prominent open source operating systems and other software, but can only disclose about 1% of what they have found. An example in their blog post includes a 27 year-old bug in OpenBSD. The company has founded Project Glasswing to work with the industry on this problem, and has indicated that Mythos is not available to the general public.

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