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Anthropic trained a new model specialized in identifying security exploits within production software, noting capabilities in offensive security tasks that build on earlier Claude demonstrations before the Mythos release

Ties into last summer's DARPA challenge at DEF CON.

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Anthropic: We have trained a new model that is incredibly good at finding security exploits in production software Public: Wow! We better ban data center construction right away. We wouldn’t want the US to be ahead of China in training these types of models for much longer.

8:32 AM · May 17, 2026 View on X

I also wrote about the DARPA challenge at DEF CON last summer - if I remember correctly the contestants spent 2 or 3 years in their bug-hunting AI, while Anthropic was just starting to show off Claude's offensive chops pre-Mythos: https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/hacker-bodyguard-target-ais-triple-act-at-the-years-biggest-security-showdowns/

2:48 PM · May 18, 2026 · 331 Views