2026
Daniel Whitenack says the cybersecurity world is alarmed about Anthropic's Mythos because it could discover many vulnerabilities.
“the cybersecurity world is up in arms about mythos. And I think they should be to some degree, because it's powerful, it's gonna discover all these vulnerabilities”
Daniel Whitenack · The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026, 0:28:09
2026
Chris Benson notes that Mythos is known about but has not been publicly released.
“Mythos came out recently and things like, Yeah, well, it's not out, but Mythos is there.”
Chris Benson · The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026, 0:29:21
2026
Bar Kogan says automated vulnerability research seemed twenty to fifty years away ten years ago, and that Mythos-level models arrived suddenly.
“if you took me ten years ago, automated vulnerability research looked like a a dream that would take 2050 years to to happen.”
Maxim Bar Kogan · Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan, 0:25:45
2026
Bar Kogan says that if another developer, such as a Chinese lab, releases a Mythos-level model, a restricted rollout would look like a mistake because companies would be left vulnerable.
“The problem is that if anyone gets to a mythos level model earlier, then in retrospect, it will look like a huge mistake.”
Maxim Bar Kogan · Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan, 0:28:23
2026
Krishna says Anthropic's Mythos model is much easier to use for finding vulnerabilities, which opens attacks to people with average skills.
“We will completely acknowledge that Mythos is way easier to use than the past.”
Arvind Krishna · IBM’s $10 billion bet on what comes after AI, 0:29:47
2026
Baldwin says recently announced frontier models, including Mythos, raised board-level concern about cybersecurity.
“I think what's happened with what's with Mythos and a couple of the models that have been announced very recently.”
Andy Baldwin · The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting), 0:39:10
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John Belden says Anthropic is holding back its Mythos model because of security concerns.
“They're holding back that particular model right now because of the security concerns that it that it has in it.”
John Belden · The Hidden Risk in Every Enterprise AI Vendor Contract - with John Belden of UpperEdge, 0:03:17
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Chris Benson described Mythos and Fable as latest-generation models able to do things no human can, with Mythos especially strong in cybersecurity.
“we're looking at things like Mythos and fable from, you know, which are the latest generation able to really, um, to really, um, you know, do things that no human is able to do, you know, Mythos, especially in terms of cybersecurity.”
Chris Benson · Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World, 0:28:45
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A guest reports that Mythos flagged vulnerabilities in code that were hallucinations roughly 30% of the time when tested.
“What's fascinating is when I did that, even then it was fine, it was hallucinating 30% of the time.”
Arvind Krishna · Arvind Krishna & Nikesh Arora: Quantum Threat, Open vs Frontier AI, AI Cyber Warfare & SaaS Collapse, 0:16:53