The Trump-Xi summit opening in Beijing this week carries an agenda item unlike any in the history of US-China diplomacy: what to do about artificial intelligence that can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities in the world’s most critical software — and what happens when both superpowers have it.
Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, released last month to a limited group of security partners, has demonstrated the ability to discover zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser, sometimes finding bugs that had survived decades of human review and millions of automated tests.
Anthropic has framed Mythos as a watershed moment, launching Project Glasswing and committing $10...