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Anthropic’s Most Dangerous Achievement

Anthropic’s Most Dangerous Achievement
An Illustration by the AI company Anthropic on Aug. 1, 2025. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
Mike Fredenburg
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Anthropic’s newest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Mythos, can do what teams of elite human hackers cannot do or would take weeks or months to achieve—and it can do so in a matter of hours.

Mike Fredenburg
Mike Fredenburg
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Mike Fredenburg writes on military technology and defense matters with an emphasis on defense reform. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and master’s degree in production operations management.