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American AI developer Anthropic plans to “lay the risks out on the table” even as it restricts deployment of a new model dubbed Mythos, whose powerful cybersecurity capabilities raise stark questions for companies and governments.<\/p>\n
“We have a model that’s beginning to outstrip human capabilities in the cyber world,” Anthropic’s Paris-based chief of relations with startups and tech firms Guillaume Princen told AFP in an interview.<\/p>\n
Mythos<\/a> is “capable of spotting security holes that have existed for decades, in systems tested by both human experts and automated tools, that have never been discovered before,” he added.<\/p>\n Anthropic has delayed a general release of Mythos, sharing it first with a few dozen key American tech and financial services players\u2014such as Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and JP Morgan Chase\u2014to allow them to test and improve their security infrastructure.<\/p>\n But the company has also been accused of overhyping the powers of a technology which is its stock in trade\u2014and the subject of fierce competition with rival OpenAI.<\/p>\n The Mythos news broke as rumors grow that Anthropic will list on the stock market this year.<\/p>\n Guillaume Princen said Europe is Anthropic’s fastest-growing market.<\/p>\n Safety first?<\/p>\n “We prefer to be transparent and lay these risks out on the table,” Princen said, adding that AI safety concerns are “central to Anthropic’s DNA.”<\/p>\n “We don’t have all the answers, this has to be a conversation between tech actors like us who have the data, the academic world, the political world and the world of economists,” he added.<\/p>\n Mythos’ reported capabilities have unsettled the American financial sector and the European Union, which requested more information from Anthropic.<\/p>\n In an open letter to businesses, the British government said that Mythos “highlights the speed at which AI capabilities are increasing and the threats they potentially pose.”<\/p>\n No European company is part of Anthropic’s “Project Glasswing” consortium for shoring up cyber defenses using Mythos’ findings.<\/p>\n That has raised questions about how prepared the rest of the world will be for the offensive capabilities of US-owned AI.<\/p>\n Mythos is “certainly not a model that will soon be opened to the public at large, for obvious reasons,” Princen said.<\/p>\n Anthropic is nevertheless “thinking about the next waves of opening up,” he added.<\/p>\n European growth<\/p>\n Europe is the region where Anthropic sees the fastest growth.<\/p>\n![\"Guillaume](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/guillaume-princen-said.jpg\" "\\"Guillaume")
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