On April 7, 2026, American artificial intelligence company Anthropic officially released its most powerful AI model to date, "Claude Mythos Preview." The company announced that this model represents a "generational leap" in programming and reasoning capabilities, with particularly outstanding cybersecurity abilities. Anthropic described it as "the most capable AI model ever developed," surpassing its predecessor Claude Opus 4.6 and rival Gemini 3.1 in performance.

Autonomous Discovery of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

According to Anthropic's disclosures, "Claude Mythos" demonstrates unprecedented security research capabilities. The model can autonomously identify and exploit massive numbers of vulnerabilities in mainstream operating systems and web browsers, with efficiency far exceeding that of human security researchers. In internal testing, the model discovered thousands of previously unknown critical security flaws—"zero-day vulnerabilities"—in widely-used software.

The model identified a denial-of-service vulnerability that had existed in the OpenBSD system for 27 years, as well as a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-4747) in the FreeBSD NFS server that had persisted for 17 years, which could allow unauthenticated users to gain full root privileges.

Suspension of Public Release and Risk Management

Precisely because its capabilities are "too powerful," Anthropic has explicitly stated that "Claude Mythos" has no plans for public release at this time, to prevent its abuse by malicious actors that could threaten global critical infrastructure in banking, healthcare, and energy sectors. Instead, Anthropic launched "Project Glasswing," granting access only to a carefully selected group of 11 founding partners and over 40 critical software infrastructure organizations.

Participating companies include: Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks, among others. Anthropic has committed to providing up to $100 million in usage credits for this initiative and $4 million in donations to open-source security organizations.

Emergency Regulatory Response from the US & UK

In early April, the US Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chair urgently convened CEOs of major Wall Street banks for closed-door meetings, warning that the model could enable more sophisticated cyberattacks while encouraging banks to deploy this technology for internal vulnerability identification. Major financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup have begun testing or are preparing to test the model.

Meanwhile, UK financial regulators are holding emergency consultations with the Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority, Treasury, and National Cyber Security Centre to assess the model's potential threats to critical IT systems, with plans to brief major banks, insurance companies, and exchanges on relevant risks within the next two weeks. The Bank of Canada has also convened major lending institutions and financial authorities to discuss the cybersecurity implications of AI systems.

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