The AI Model That Scared Its Own Creators: Inside Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview

How a general-purpose language model accidentally became the most capable hacker on Earth, and why its creators decided the world isn’t ready for it. Image generated with AI. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. We talk a lot about AI moving fast. New models, new benchmarks, new capabilities. Every few weeks, something supposedly groundbreaking lands. Most of the time, the hype fades within a news cycle. This time is different.