Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
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Daniel Stenberg has accepted the offer to use Myth-KI to search for vulnerabilities in curl. He has discovered a gap.
Anthropic's AI model Myth has been celebrated for some time now for its supposedly superior capabilities in finding vulnerabilities. However, a well-known open source developer sees this as an exaggerated marketing after testing. (Read more)
Anthropic's Bug-Hunting Mythos Was Greatest Marketing Stunt Ever, Says cURL Creator
cURL creator Daniel Stenberg says Anthropic's hyped Mythos bug-hunting model found only one confirmed low-severity vulnerability in cURL, plus a few non-security bugs, after he expected a much longer list. He argues Mythos may be useful, but not meaningfully beyond other modern AI code-analysis tools. "My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing," Stenbe…
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator The post Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator appeared first on IT Security News.
Anthropic's Mythos model came surrounded by expectations for its supposed exceptional ability to discover critical software failures. But after an analysis of curl, one of the most audited C projects in the world, the balance was much more sober: of five vulnerabilities that AI considered confirmed, the human team only validated one, and also low gravity. *** Mythos' analysis of curl reviewed 178,000 lines of code in the src/ and lib/ directorie…
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead … Continue reading Mythos finds a curl vulnerability →
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