Anthropic’s Mythos helps find bugs in Apple’s MacOS, WSJ reports

Security researchers say they have discovered a new way of circumventing Apple’s (AAPL) – state-of-the art security technology, using techniques they discovered while testing an early version of Anthropic’s Mythos AI software in April, The Wall Street Journal’s Robert McMillan reports. The researchers with Calif say the software they wrote links together two bugs and a handful of techniques to corrupt the Mac’s memory and then gain access to parts of the device that should be inaccessible. Apple, which is deploying and testing frontier AI models to test and patch vulnerabilities, is reviewing the Calif report to validate its findings, the author notes. “Security is our top priority, and we take reports of potential vulnerabilities very seriously,” a company spokeswoman said.