Earthset.
Molecular barcodes.
Make the blurbs shorter. — James Walker, cousin.
1. Casey Newton:
Two weeks ago, Anthropic accidentally leaked the existence of what the company said was its most powerful artificial intelligence to date: a new model, known as Claude Mythos Preview, that represented “a step change” in AI performance. In particular, according to a blog post that leaked due to human error and a misconfigured content management system, Mythos posed serious new risks to cybersecurity. “It presages an upcoming wave of models that can exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace the efforts of defenders,” the blog post stated.
On Tuesday, the wave crashed onto the shore. Anthropic announced Mythos alongside Project Glasswing, an initiative with more than 40 of the world’s biggest tech companies that will see Anthropic grant early access to the model to find and patch vulnerabilities across many of the world’s most important systems. Launch partners in the coalition include Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Broadcom.
Still, today (April 7, 2026) marks a striking and mostly unsettling moment in the development of AI systems. One of the world’s three frontier labs has now created a model it says is too dangerous to release to the general public. These dangers emerged not from any specialized cyber training but from the same general improvements that every other lab is currently pursuing. As a result, models with similar capabilities may soon be accessible to criminals, hackers, and nation states — or even more broadly via open source models.
Already, Anthropic said, the model has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, and in many cases developed related exploits. Among them: a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open source operating system, that had escaped detection for 27 years; another flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests; and “several” vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine.
“Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely,” the company wrote. “The fallout — for economies, public safety, and national security — could be severe. Project Glasswing is an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work for defensive purposes.” (Source: platformer.news. Italics mine.)
2. Thomas Friedman:
The good news is that Anthropic discovered in the process of developing Claude Mythos that the A.I. could not only write software code more easily and with greater complexity than any model currently available, but as a byproduct of that capability, it could also find vulnerabilities in virtually all of the world’s most popular software systems more easily than before.
The bad news is that if this tool falls into the hands of bad actors, they could hack pretty much every major software system in the world. (Source: nytimes.com)
3. Times of Israel:
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he was pushing off a major bombing campaign in Iran for two weeks and that Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, which continued to attack Israel early Wednesday morning as Israeli forces also kept striking targets in the Islamic Republic.
Trump declared the truce was subject to the Strait of Hormuz being reopened. However, the premier of Pakistan — which has served as the key mediator between Washington and Tehran — claimed it was “effective immediately” and that in addition to the US and Iran, “their allies” agreed to “an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the ceasefire while maintaining that it did not cover Lebanon, several hours after a security official, however, told The Times of Israel that despite the truce declaration, the Israeli Air Force was still striking Iran. (Source: timesofisrael.com)
