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Many companies beyond Anthropic are part of the effort, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and others. In theory, it’s a great idea. Find and fix vulnerabilities before hackers can, and everyone is safer. What could go wrong?
Plenty, as it turns out. Access to Mythos is available to anyone, and Mythos has been finding security holes and bugs far faster than companies — particularly Microsoft — can patch them. As Pro Publica reported in late July, ‘Microsoft is struggling to fix them fast enough.”
Too little, too late?
For now, Microsoft is only patching the most dangerous bugs and holes. And, according to Pro Public, “internal records indicate that Microsoft plans to eventually address ‘moderate’-severity flaws uncovered by Mythos. The documents made no mention of ‘low’-severity bugs.”
