Pentagon CTO rules out resolution with Anthropic, calls Mythos a broader 'cyber moment'

Amid concerns sparked by Mythos, the Pentagon’s cyber policy chief sees ‘huge opportunity’ with frontier AI models

Software vulnerabilities recently discovered by Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model have raised alarms in the cybersecurity community, but a senior Pentagon official sounded upbeat Thursday about the benefits of frontier AI technology. Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model with coding capability, reportedly found thousands of “high-severity” vulnerabilities that need to be fixed by the public and private se…

Top Pentagon tech officials optimistic Mythos-style AI tools will improve cyber defense

Mythos is just the first of a new generation of AIs that can patch vulnerable code at superhuman speed, said Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and Cyber Policy chief Katie Sutton, downplaying the uniqueness of Anthropic.

Pentagon will ‘never again’ rely on a single AI provider, official says

Leadership at the Pentagon reiterated the agency’s commitment to diversifying its artificial intelligence service providers, with Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael taking the stage Thursday at an event in Washington, D.C., to stress that his department is never being “single-threaded with any one model.” Speaking during the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+ Expo event, Michael said that the recent deals…

AI models spotting cyber risk can help the Pentagon secure its networks, DOD officials say

Artificial intelligence models that specialize in identifying and exploiting cyber vulnerabilities -- like Anthropic's Mythos -- provide an opportunity for the Defense Department to mitigate cyber risk in its systems and build more robust code, Pentagon officials said today at an AI conference in downtown Washington. “Those vulnerabilities have always existed,” said Emil Michael, under secretary of defense for research and engineering. “Now you …

Pentagon CTO rules out resolution with Anthropic, calls Mythos a broader 'cyber moment'

One of the Pentagon's top technology leaders ruled out any reconciliation with Anthropic, despite the White House softening its own tone on the AI company. "Never again will we be single-threaded with any one model," Emil Michael, under secretary of Defense for research and engineering, said Thursday in a fireside chat at the AI+ Expo...