The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.” The April 17, 2026 article entitled “How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/technology/how-do-you-measure-an-ai-boom.html) included these comments:
Behind every technological
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SCWorld.com reported that “Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has landed with the kind of reception security leaders can’t dismiss. Anthropic says the model has already identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including in major operating systems and web browsers, and has limited access to it through Project Glasswing rather than making it
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported “A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.” The April 15, 2026 article entitled ” How ‘Jagged Intelligence’ Can Reframe the A.I. Debate”
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.” The April 12, 2026 article entitled “Mutually Automated Destruction: The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race” (
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “The leaders of some of America’s largest banks were warned by a top government official this week about a new artificial intelligence model from Anthropic that could lead to heightened risks of cyberattacks, according to three people briefed on the matter but not permitted to speak
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “A panel of federal judges on Wednesday denied a motion from Anthropic to stop the Department of Defense from labeling it a security risk, a setback for the artificial intelligence company in its battle with the Trump administration over how A.I. should be used in warfare.”
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SCWorld.com reported that “Mythos Preview identified decades-old bugs, including a 27-year-old integer overflow flaw in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old out-of-bounds write flaw in FFmpeg, demonstrating the model’s ability to find new flaws in code that was heavily scrutinized for years.” The April 9, 2026 article entitled “Claude Mythos Preview identifies
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The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Anthropic said on Tuesday, it will make the new model — known as Claude Mythos Preview — available to a consortium of more than 40 technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will use the model to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software
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Computerworld.com reported that “You can’t trust AI. … Even an information-obsessed, tech-savvy person such as yourself might be forgiven for believing that AI chatbots are on a smooth path of improvement with each passing month. But when it comes to their trustworthiness, that belief is dead wrong.” The April 3, 2026
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SCWorld.com reported that “A sophisticated spear-phishing campaign targeting senior executives at companies across dozens of industries leverages several evasion mechanisms and a newly discovered phishing kit called VENOM,…” The April 3, 2026 article entitled ” Highly evasive spear-phishing campaign targeting senior execs ‘neutralizes’ MFA” (https://tinyurl.com/yn5x4jhm) included these comments
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