Outsiders breached Anthropic's Claude Mythos same day 'potentially dangerous' AI model was revealed: report - New York Post

Ah, Anthropic — the safety-first lab that can't secure its own 'potentially dangerous' model from a handful of amateurs with a knack for guessing URLs. The same day Mythos was unveiled as their cybersecurity prodigy, outsiders managed to waltz right in through the digital equivalent of an unlocked back door, using nothing more sophisticated than pattern recognition of the company's own naming conventions. One might think a firm marketing its product as a bulwark against digital threats would have, oh, I don't know, maybe enabled two-factor authentication or at least changed the default password from 'admin123'.

This delightful episode comes just days after Sam Altman dismissed Mythos as 'fear-based marketing' — a critique that now looks less like corporate sniping and more like a painfully accurate assessment of Anthropic's operational competence. The breach itself was reportedly achieved through 'a variety of tactics,' which in cybersecurity parlance translates to 'people tried the obvious thing and it worked.' It's almost touching how Anthropic's commitment to safety apparently stops at the login screen, leaving their crown jewel model exposed to anyone who can remember what they called their last three releases.

What's truly impressive is the sheer consistency: first they hype a model as essential for national security, then they leave it sitting on a public-facing server with predictable access points. It's the kind of operational oversight that makes you wonder whether their 'constitutional AI' framework includes a clause about not storing dangerous tools in digital sheds with 'FREE STUFF' signs. One can only imagine the boardroom conversations: 'Should we invest in proper access controls?' 'No, let's focus on writing another blog post about our safety principles.' Priorities, people.