Whenever a company pivots to "cyber" rhetoric, it is a clear indication that they are selling snake oil.

Secure your girl school target selectors first.

> NSA demands that bug stays in place and gags Anthropic.

> Anthropic releases Mythos.

Then what? Is a huge share of the US zero-day stockpiles about to be disarmed or proliferated?

Generally these things only find memory corruption stuff which is almost never the type of bug you're looking for, and it costs a lot which negates your bug bounty payout.

Each time they preach, ooh, 0day found, bla bla.

In this domain you need to be specific or you are just yelling clickbait into the wind.

What type of 0day, what did the exploit actually look like.

'complex 4 stage with heap spray' - that sounds really simple actually.... complex for memory corruption goes into multi-process, maybe things between kernel/usermode, or crazy 18-20 stage exploits people pop against things like MS Teams etc....

Even if there were some cool results by any of these projects, the amount of nonsense blurted out in articles around them really makes them seem useless tools that are overmarketed by a bunch of excited children who dont really know what they are doing.

Get a dopamine hit, post on reddit, LOL. Hacking the planet (powered by Claude -_-)

Expect to see lots of these in the upcoming months as the big companies scramble to keep from losing money.

All the promises of amazing things in general work never happened. Companies consistently say they’re seeing no ROI. The AI crowd now hard pivots to cyber and, right out of the Palantir playbook, runs with the “our stuff is so amazing we can’t talk about it, but trust us bro” move that isn’t really fooling anyone.

Meanwhile the folks let in on the “secret” are those that also desperately need for the hype to continue to protect their own positions in this game.

Look forward to a model upgrade but the hype fluff games are getting old. Watching OpenAI completely crash out of pole position on the hype train though has been at least amusing.

But at the core of anthropic seems to be the idea that they must protect humans from themselves.

They advocate government regulations of private open model use. They want to centralize the holding of this power and ban those that aren't in the club from use.

They, like most tech companies, seem to lack the idea that individual self-determination is important. Maybe the most important thing.