What States Need to Know About Mythos

June 23, 2026

In April, AI company Anthropic announced it had created Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so good at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company would, for the time being, only be allowing a select group of users to access it. The initial group included organizations behind “the world’s most critical software,” like Amazon Web Services and the Linux Foundation, so they could use Mythos to discover and patch up flaws in their software before hackers could discover them.