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AI is getting good at spotting tech's weak spots.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Anthropics' recent AI model mythos preview is so good, the company says, at uncovering

security vulnerabilities, it's too dangerous to release to the public. Anthropics shared a preview

version with a select group to help patch the holes that meet those finds. But the prospect

of a super hacker AI system is still sending some business leaders into a panic.

Marketplaces Megan McCarty Carino has that.

Stephen Weber has never laid eyes on mythos or OpenAI's GPT5.4 cyber model.

But he's long worried about how AI might empower malicious hackers.

It was inevitable.

Weber is a retired professor at UC Berkeley

who led the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity,

and he says if there's one thing we know

today's large language models are really good at,

it's coding.

So the idea that the models were going to discover

bugs in code,

it doesn't really surprise me.

Anthropic and OpenAI claim their new models are significantly more capable at detecting unknown bugs in the code that underlies everything from operating systems to web browsers.

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