AI tool “too dangerous to release” could have devastating consequences for companies

Australia’s largest cybersecurity company has issued an urgent warning about a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, and which experts fear could trigger the next wave of major data breaches.

CyberCX told Australian companies, banks and infrastructure operators on Thursday they had a window of opportunity to strengthen their defenses before the technology or copies of it end up in the hands of criminals.

The warning refers to Claude Mythos Preview, an unpublished AI model from US company Anthropic that the company considers too dangerous to release publicly. Anthropic has access to approximately 50 major technology and infrastructure partners – including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and JPMorgan Chase – as part of a…