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Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox

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Amid a raging debate over the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday that its Firefox 150 browser release this week includes protections for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview. The Firefox team says that it has taken resources and discipline to adjust to the firehose of bugs that new AI tools can uncover, but that this big lift is necessary for the security of Mozilla’s users, given that the capabilities will inevitably be in attackers’ hands soon. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers—find vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in software systems. With this in mind, the companies have so far only done limited private releases of their new models, and both have also convened industry working groups meant to assess the advances and strategize. In practice, though, cybersecurity experts have a range of views on how consequential the new capabilities will …

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox

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Amid a raging debate over the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday that its Firefox 150 browser release this week includes protections for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview. The Firefox team says that it has taken resources and discipline to adjust to the firehose of bugs that new AI tools can uncover, but that this big lift is necessary for the security of Mozilla’s users, given that the capabilities will inevitably be in attackers’ hands soon. Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers—find vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in software systems. With this in mind, the companies have so far only done limited private releases of their new models, and both have also convened industry working groups meant to assess the advances and strategize. In practice, though, cybersecurity experts have a range of views on how consequential the new capabilities will …

Claude Design : Anthropic’s New AI Tool for Creatives

Claude Design : Anthropic’s New AI Tool for Creatives

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Claude Design, developed by Anthropic, is a platform that connects design and implementation in a practical way. Matt Maher highlights its ability to generate cohesive design systems, such as buttons, fonts and color palettes, directly from uploaded files or repositories. This feature helps maintain consistency across projects while simplifying the process of creating professional outputs. Discover how Claude Design’s image recognition enhances precision in visual projects and explore its customization options, including real-time editing and adaptable layouts. Gain insight into its animation and data visualization capabilities, which help present complex information in clear, interactive formats. This explainer will provide a closer look at these features and their practical uses.  New Claude Design Tool TL;DR Key Takeaways : Claude Design integrates seamlessly with Claude Code, allowing smooth transitions from creative ideation to technical execution for projects like websites, animations and presentations. The platform offers advanced features such as image recognition, streamlined workflows and tools for creating comprehensive design systems, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Customization options, including light/dark modes, layout variations and real-time editing, allow users to …

Supply Chain What? The NSA Is Using Anthropic’s Mythos According To Report

Supply Chain What? The NSA Is Using Anthropic’s Mythos According To Report

Published by Jenni Sidey

Two months after the Department of War declared Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and moved to several all ties with the AI wunderkind, the National Security Agency (NSA), which falls under DoW, is using it according to Axios.  According to the report, the nation’s top surveillance agency is using Mythos Preview – Anthropic’s most powerful model to date. It is unclear how the NSA is currently using Mythos, however other organizations are using it primarily to scan their own environments for exploitable security vulnerabilities. The company has restricted access to Mythos to around 40 organizations – as the company says the model’s offensive cyber capabilities are too dangerous for wider release. Axios notes further; Anthropic only announced 12 of those organizations. One source said the NSA was among the unnamed agencies with access. The NSA’s counterparts in the U.K. have said they have access to the model through the country’s AI Security Institute. On Friday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discuss deploying Mythos within the government, as well …

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

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Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration. There were earlier signs of a thawing relationship — or a sense that not every part of the administration wanted to cut off Anthropic — with reports saying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were encouraging the heads of major banks to test out Anthropic’s new Mythos model. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark seemed to confirm this, claiming that the ongoing fight over the supply-chain risk designation is a “narrow contracting dispute” that would not interfere with the company’s willingness to brief the government about its latest models. Then on Friday, Axios reported that Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. In a statement, the White House described this as an “introductory meeting” that was “productive and constructive.” “We discussed opportunities for collaboration, as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology,” the White …

Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic’s AI guardrails, with the hackers simply pretending to work for legitimate cybersecurity organizations — highlighting how woefully unprepared we are for powerful AI models that could accelerate the discovery of serious vulnerabilities. And now, Anthropic’s latest Mythos AI model is making that nightmare scenario feel more real than ever. As Bloomberg reports, the company’s executives were seemingly so alarmed by the system’s capabilities that they decided to only make it available to a select number of organizations as part of “Project Glasswing.” The goal: give the organizations a fighting chance to get ahead of a potential cybersecurity crisis in the making. But considering Anthropic has yet to publicly release its model, plenty of questions remain surrounding the company’s eyebrow-raising claims. In his own testing, Anthropic-affiliated …

We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and ‘Routines’ — here’s what enterprises should know

We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and ‘Routines’ — here’s what enterprises should know

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The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the modern developer’s toolkit. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic signaled this shift with a dual release: a complete redesign of the Claude Code desktop app (for Mac and Windows) and the launch of “Routines” in research preview. These updates suggest that for the modern enterprise, the developer’s role is shifting from a solo practitioner to a high-level orchestrator managing multiple, simultaneous streams of work. For years, the industry focused on “copilots”—single-threaded assistants that lived within the IDE and responded to the immediate line of code being written. Anthropic’s latest update acknowledges that the shape of “agentic work” has fundamentally changed. Developers are no longer just typing prompts and waiting for answers; they are initiating refactors in one repository, fixing bugs in another, and writing tests in a third, all while monitoring the progress of these disparate tasks. The redesigned desktop application reflects this change through its central “Mission Control” …

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

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OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billion by the end of March, driven largely by demand for its coding tools. One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI’s round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic’s current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain. The secondary market tells a similar story right now, where demand for Anthropic shares has grown nearly insatiable while OpenAI shares are trading at a discount. Altman has been here before. During his tenure leading Y Combinator, aggressive valuation inflation left some portfolio companies financially stranded while others proved worth every penny and then some. Iconiq Capital partner Roy Luo — whose firm has invested over $1 billion in Anthropic while holding a smaller stake in OpenAI — told …

In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

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OpenAI on Tuesday announced the next phase of its cybersecurity strategy and a new model specifically designed for use by digital defenders, GPT-5.4-Cyber. The news comes in the wake of an announcement last week by competitor Anthropic that its new Claude Mythos Preview model is only being privately released for now—because, the company says, it could be exploited by hackers and bad actors. Anthropic also announced an industry coalition, including competitors like Google, focused on how advances in generative AI across the field will impact cybersecurity. OpenAI seemed to be seeking to differentiate its message on Tuesday by striking a less catastrophic tone and touting its existing guardrails and defenses while hinting at the need for more advanced protections in the long term. “We believe the class of safeguards in use today sufficiently reduce cyber risk enough to support broad deployment of current models,” the company wrote in a blog post. “We expect versions of these safeguards to be sufficient for upcoming more powerful models, while models explicitly trained and made more permissive for cybersecurity …

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

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Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks. Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises, already burdened with orchestrating an increasing number of agents, can now choose to embed the orchestration logic in the AI model layer. While this comes with some potential advantages, such as speed (Anthropic proposes its customers can deploy agents in days instead of weeks or months), it also, of course, then also turns more control over the enterprise’s AI agent deployments and operations to the model provider — in this case, Anthropic — potentially resulting in greater “lock in” for the enterprise customer, leaving them more subject to Anthropic’s terms, conditions, and any subsequent platform changes. But maybe that is worth it for your enterprise, as Anthropic further claims that its platform “handles the complexity” by letting users define agent tasks, tools and guardrails with a built-in orchestration harness, all without the need for sandboxing code …