Claude Mythos and the EU Cyber Resilience Act
As of writing this I can find no Hacker News comments containing both the words “mythos” and “CRA”, which suggests I might have a first-mover advantage in writing something interesting. At last! Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on 2026-04-07. Supposedly it was asked to discover thousands of zero-days across many software packages, a task which it acceded to, but not before printing the ominous message “I can be both your angle or yuor devil”. This scared them so they made the model VIP only. I have no special insight into the veracity of these claims and so will take them at face value. ...