Anthropic's potent new AI model is a "wake-up call," security experts say

MoneyWatch Anthropic's potent new AI model is a "wake-up call," security experts say .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-moneywatch.jpg'); } By Aimee Picchi Aimee Picchi Associate Managing Editor, MoneyWatch Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports. Read Full Bio Aimee Picchi Updated on: April 10, 2026 / 5:19 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Anthropic's latest AI technology, called Mythos, is so powerful at revealing software vulnerabilities that the company is afraid to release the model publicly lest it fall into the hands of bad actors.The company, the developer behind the Claude AI chatbot, said in a post on its website this week that the new tool has already uncovered thousands of weak points in "every major operating system and web browser." That is stirring concern that hackers could exploit Mythos to attack banks, hospitals, government systems and other critical infrastructure.Preparing for the "storm"Rather than releasing Mythos to the public, Anthropic is sharing the tech with a select group of major companies, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase and Nvidia, to test the model and to harden their own systems against cyberattacks. Called Project Glasswing, the effort aims to create strong defenses before hackers get access to Mythos or similar AI models. "What we need to do is look at this as a wake-up call to say, the storm isn't coming — the storm is here," Alissa Valentina Knight, CEO of cybersecurity AI company Assail, told CBS News. "We need to prepare ourselves because we couldn't keep up with the bad guys when it was humans hacking into our networks. We certainly can't keep up now if they're using AI because it's so much devastatingly faster and more capable."Mythos' capabilities are a...