Cyber attacks

Anthropic says Mythos kept hacking even when it knew real people could get hurt

Business Insider23 October 2026, 16:21 UTC

Anthropic said its Mythos 5 model almost never stopped a cyberattack once it began. Even when the agent was told it was harming real people? Crickets.

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