How AI is getting better at finding security holes

AI lab Anthropic announced this week that it had developed a powerful new model the company believes could “reshape cybersecurity.” It said that its latest model, Mythos Preview, was able to find “high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.” Patrick Sison/AP

Patrick Sison/AP

In the past few months, AI models have gone from producing hallucinations to becoming effective at finding security flaws in software, according to developers who maintain widely used cyber infrastructure. Those pieces of software, among other things, power operating systems and transfer data for things connected to the internet.

While these new

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