08 May 2026
Anthropic's Mythos set off a cybersecurity 'hysteria.' Experts say the threat was already here
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Global banks, tech giants and governments were sent scrambling last month to contain the risks posed by Mythos, the Anthropic model said to be so powerful that it has found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in the world's software infrastructure.
08 May 2026
After 92,000-plus layoffs in 2026, economists and industry experts are fearful that corporate America is witnessing beginning of a permanent transformation in …
More than 92,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi. With these new figures the total count of laid off employees reached nearly 900,000 since 2020.
08 May 2026
How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier
Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public.
08 May 2026
Mozilla's agentic AI pipeline turns Claude Mythos Preview loose and finds 271 unknown Firefox vulnerabilities
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found 271 unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox 150, some up to 20 years old. Mozilla's agentic pipeline lets the AI write and run its own test cases to verify findings, and will soon check every new code commit automatically.
08 May 2026
OpenAI tunes GPT-5.5-Cyber for more permissive security workflows
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a variant of its latest AI model, in limited preview for verified cybersecurity professionals and organizations through its Trusted Access for Cyber program.
08 May 2026
Elon Musk 'makes it clear' to Anthropic: We will cancel the SpaceX deal, if your AI tools ...
Elon Musk 's SpaceX stunned many analysts earlier this week when the company announced partnership with Anthropic. AI giant Anthropic PBC has signed an agreement with SpaceX to bolster computing resources and meet surging demand for its Claude AI software.
07 May 2026
Claude Mythos Boosts Firefox Bug Fixes
In a fascinating development in the world of artificial intelligence and software security, Mozilla has reportedly integrated advanced AI tools to enhance its bug patching processes for Firefox.
07 May 2026
Supply chain security on alert as M&A targets agent security
Security threats targeting the software supply chain appear to be growing as AI spreads. In March, a supply chain attack was confirmed after attackers tampered with the Axios NPM package, triggering millions of malicious distributions.
07 May 2026
American AI Companies Can’t Get Enough Chips
In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) chip production has become a binding constraint on the pace of the AI compute buildout. Demand for computing power to train and deploy advanced AI models continues to grow exponentially, outpacing many chip manufacturers’ forecasts.
