Mythos, Mythomania, and the Closed Domain
On April 7, Anthropic announced that Claude Mythos Preview had discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, with exploits across every major operating system and browser, and 99% of findings still unpatched. The company declined general release, citing risk. It launched Project Glasswing, a vendor consortium granted privileged access. It set post-preview pricing at $25 and $125 per million input and output tokens. Within a week, leaked reports placed China at Anthropic’s door, alarming the White House. ...