Anthropic Wins Accolades From Canada Minister Over Mythos Access

A Canadian cabinet minister praised Anthropic PBC’s decision to introduce its Mythos model to select companies and allow them to test the technology before releasing it more widely.

“Working with defenders first, rather than releasing this new model broadly, is the responsible path and gives people protecting critical systems a head start,” Evan Solomon, Canada’s minister responsible for artificial intelligence, said Tuesday after meeting with officials from the AI company.

Anthropic has warned that Mythos is powerful enough that it may be capable of cyberattacks if companies don’t try it against their own systems and build defenses ahead of ...