[The NSA is Using Mythos for Hacking Operations] According to Semafor, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is utilizing Anthropic's cutting-edge AI model Mythos, which has not yet been publicly released, for offensive cyber operations aimed at discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities. This model, known for its powerful vulnerability detection and exploitation capabilities, is only provided to select institutions to help build defense systems. However, the NSA has been accused of using it for offensive purposes, while the U.S. government is currently engaged in legal proceedings with Anthropic over related issues. Additionally, Cloudflare has pointed out that the majority of current internet traffic is now generated by AI agents, some of which are malicious bots. Although these open-source models are less capable than Mythos, their overall performance is less than a year behind cutting-edge systems.