Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who…

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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos. But not everyone is happy with the restrictions, and a number of cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints online.  “[Fable] rejects any request that could be tangentially cyber related. Even…

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NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations

NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations

Anthropic has deployed around half-a-dozen engineers to the National Security Agency to help its spies use the company’s frontier cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. The engineers are reportedly tasked with helping the intelligence agency use Mythos for certain applications, the report said. However, it’s unclear if the engineers or Mythos…

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