Anthropic's latest AI model identifies 'thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities' in 'every major operating system and every major web browser' — Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades

(Image credit: Anthropic, AMD) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 3 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter The capabilities of AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex are already causing seismic shifts for the software industry, but if Anthropic's latest disclosure is to believed, even more disruption is in the pipe. In a new blog post today, the frontier lab behind Claude revealed that its latest model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so capable at teasing out bugs that it's found "thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser."Given Claude Mythos Preview's potentially disruptive and wide-ranging capabilities, Anthropic isn't simply releasing it to the world, consequences be damned. Instead, the lab has convened key players across the software and hardware industries in order to use Mythos's bug-fin...