It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We do have a very funny picture of the week,

but the meat of the show really is this new model from Anthropic Claude's mythos.

They say it's too dangerous to release. It's certainly found a lot of security flaws,

but is it marketing hype or really a model that is much better than ever before? Steve

breaks it down for you next on Security Now.

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This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 1774, recorded Tuesday, April 14th,

2026. What Mythos means. It's time for security now. Steve Gibson's here, and we've got a lot

to talk about. When do we not have a lot to talk about? Steve Gibson. Good to see you again. Welcome.

Actually, we have a lot to talk about. I think you and I will be doing a lot of discussing, but it's been a long time since a one of our shows was basically,

essentially dedicated to one thing.

I'm so excited about this show.

I've, well, the topic of today's show, the title is what mythos means and the I want to talk about

mythos in particular because you know I've seen the skeptics posting online and

the cynics and we should explain this is a new model from Anthropic which is one of

the frontier AI companies, a model so good, they say they don't want to release to the public because it's too dangerous.

Okay. And I get people rolling their eyes, but because that happens to be, it plays into my own narrative,

I'm thinking, okay, that's interesting. So I spent some time to really dig in. And the thing I want to make clear is that mythos is only first.

And for what it's worth, given some things we have seen, and we'll talk about that,

I am very glad that a USAI leader is first. But I'm not fooling myself

thinking that they have any secret sauce that China isn't going to quickly catch up with. I mean,

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