Anthropic's Claude Mythos Leak: The Most Powerful AI Model Nobody Was Supposed to Know About
Anthropic just got caught with its pants down. The company building what it calls the most safety-conscious AI on the planet accidentally left its biggest secret on a publicly searchable server. The secret? Claude Mythos — a new model tier that reportedly leapfrogs everything else in the industry. And the kicker? Anthropic’s own internal docs warn that Mythos poses “unprecedented cybersecurity risks.” You can’t write irony this good. What Got Leaked Fortune broke the story Thursday: nearly 3,000 unpublished documents, including a draft blog post announcing Claude Mythos, were sitting in an unsecured data store. Not a sophisticated state-sponsored hack. Not a disgruntled employee. A CMS misconfiguration. Human error. ...