Anthropic agreed to brief the Financial Stability Board on the cyber risk profile of its Claude Mythos model following a request from the Bank of England governor. The sessions will detail how the model uncovers vulnerabilities in global financial systems and its potential effects on cyber defenses and stability.
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OpenAI announced that its Astra model is the first to reach the company’s critical cyber threshold by independently locating and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities in live software. A public version is slated for release soon, but advanced capabilities will initially be available only to Daybreak Blue partners while new guardrails and a misalignment monitor are deployed.
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