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Frightening AI advances speed race to secure critical infrastructure

Axios · · 683 words · By Sam Sabin
AI Safety and Security Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability Open Source vs. Proprietary AI Access
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The article discusses the risks posed by advanced AI models capable of autonomously discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities. It highlights the efforts of companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to restrict access to these tools and examines the tension between restricted access and the needs of open-source maintainers.

Propaganda risk 30%
Claims checked 6
Techniques found 3
Topics 3

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What happened

Anyone charged with securing America's critical infrastructure — water, electricity, health care, financial services and more — is officially on the clock.

Why it matters

Why it matters: AI models are getting so good at autonomously hacking and exploiting severe bugs that their own creators are holding them back out of fear they'll wreak havoc on the systems that power daily life.

Common ground

Anthropic is limiting access to its Mythos Preview model for that reason.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

The article discusses the risks posed by advanced AI models capable of autonomously discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities. It highlights the efforts of companies like Anthropic and OpenAI to restrict access to these tools and examines the tension between restricted access and the needs of open-source maintainers.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/04/10/anthropic-mythos-openai-cyber-threats

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “OpenAI is looking to do the same for a forthcoming release”
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Multiple sources indicate OpenAI is planning a restricted rollout of a new model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities, limiting access to a select group of companies rather than the general public.
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web search NEUTRAL — - Model capabilities. OpenAI is building the global infrastructure for agentic AI, making it possible for people and businesses around the world to get work done with AI. Over the past year, we’ve see…
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
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web search NEUTRAL — It's unclear the cyber capabilities of that model and how OpenAI plans to roll it out. Reality check: Widely available AI models are already capable of finding some of the vulnerabilities and exploits…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/openai-new-model-cyber-myth…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI is preparing to release a new artificial intelligence model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities through a restricted rollout, limiting early access to a select group of companies rather th…
https://www.socialpost.news/openai-plans-limited-rollout-of-…
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Claim 2: “OpenAI also plans to roll out a forthcoming product with advanced cyber capabilities to a small subset of companies through its "Trusted Access for Cyber" program”
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Multiple sources explicitly mention OpenAI's 'Trusted Access for Cyber' program and its use to provide GPT-5.5-Cyber (a model with advanced cyber capabilities) to a limited set of vetted defenders and companies like Snyk.
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web search NEUTRAL — By deploying OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber and GPT-5.5, we are giving defenders at Snyk the capability they need to protect critical supply chains. This partnership isn’t just a milestone; it’s a …
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-with-trusted-access-for-cyb…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber supports specialized cybersecurity workflows for verified defenders under Trusted Access for Cyber.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/08/openai-gpt-5-5-cy…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders.Cyber defenders who are vetted and approved for the highest tier of OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program will receive a vers…
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity…
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Claim 3: “Anthropic said Tuesday it has no plans to release its Mythos Preview model to the general public”
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While other claims confirm Anthropic is restricting the model, the provided evidence for this specific claim consists of general company descriptions and homepages; there is no specific mention of a statement made 'Tuesday' regarding the general public release.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. [7] Anthro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
https://claude.com/product/overview
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Claim 4: “Last year, 42% of vulnerabilities that were used in attacks hadn't even been publicly disclosed yet, according to CrowdStrike”
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The provided evidence mentions CrowdStrike in the context of the 2024 outage, Russian interference in 2016, and general product reviews, but does not contain the specific statistic that 42% of vulnerabilities used in attacks last year were undisclosed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Managed detection and response (or MDR) is a type of cybersecurity service providing customers with a cyberdefense technology and the associated remotely delivered human expertise. Those services help…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_detection_and_response
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In July 2024, Delta Air Lines, a major U.S. carrier and one of the largest airlines in the world, experienced an operational disruption following the 2024 CrowdStrike incident including the cancelatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Delta_Air_Lines_disruptio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kernel-level anti-cheats are a type of anti-cheat that run at a lower system level, making it harder for cheats to avoid detection. Kernel-level monitoring has received much criticism from cybersecuri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-level_anti-cheat
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Claim 5: “Anthropic is limiting access to its Mythos Preview model”
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Multiple independent web sources report that Anthropic is restricting access to the Mythos Preview model, limiting it to a small group of companies (e.g., Amazon, Apple, Microsoft) due to its powerful hacking capabilities.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in artificial intelligence, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_artificial_intelligenc…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5.5 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 5.5) is a large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI on April 23, 2026. The model is also known by its codename "Spud". OpenAI reports improvements on be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.5
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Claim 6: “researchers have found readily available open-weights models that are capable of exploiting many of the decades-old bugs that Mythos Preview targeted in testing”
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One web search result mentions that researchers at AISLE found widely available AI models capable of finding vulnerabilities and exploits that Mythos uncovered. The other provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions and unrelated Wikipedia entries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, Marxist and teacher based i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher
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web search NEUTRAL — EXISTING definition: already or previously in place, before being replaced, altered, or added to. See examples of existing used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/existing
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info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.