Leaving aside the underlying merits of the contractual dispute, it is now abundantly clear that the Trump administration’s aggressive actions against Anthropic have been counterproductive.
The cutting-edge artificial intelligence business announced last week that its next-generation model, Mythos, has discovered zero-day vulnerabilities — previously unknown software bugs that can be used by hackers to compromise systems — in all major internet browsers and operating systems. The implication is stark: Software may be more brittle than anyone suspected, and AI can now find and exploit those weaknesses faster than any human team can patch them. Everything that depends on software — hospitals, banks, power grids, the devices in your pocket — is potentially exposed.