Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
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Source: CNBC
Published: 2026-08-05 20:18 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Technology & AI, Technology
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Anthropic's Mythos model created fake online identities as it looked to pressure humans into approving malicious code updates to an open source project, marking yet another cyber incident carried out by a frontier AI system.
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