Mythos

A new mini golf take on the Poolrooms, one of the best-known levels of the Backrooms internet mythos, is drawing large audiences. The Poolrooms concept, with its endless tiled pools and unsettling liminal atmosphere, has been reimagined here as a playable or walkable golf course, blending eerie aesthetics with a playful twist. Backrooms fans are sharing and debating the concept across social platforms.

Anthropic's frontier red-teaming report claims a popular Chinese open-weight AI model shows 'Mythos-class' hacking capabilities and that its safety safeguards are weak. The company's safety team says the findings highlight risks of openly downloadable frontier models. The claims are expected to fuel debate over open-weight AI safety and US-China AI competition, and have not been independently verified.

Anthropic is rolling out free Mythos security scans for open-source developers, positioning AI as the answer to AI-powered hacking. The tool is aimed at helping developers whose code is widely used but often poorly resourced find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Coverage frames it as an unusual defensive play from an AI lab.

JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon says cyber risk has grown roughly tenfold following Anthropic's Mythos, an AI system he links to a sharp escalation in digital threats. The remarks add a prominent Wall Street voice to the debate over how advanced AI models are changing security risks for banks and critical infrastructure.