Anthropic Gives Tech Firms Early Access to Powerful AI Model
THE SO WHAT
Giving select tech firms early access to Mythos for cyber defense is a quiet admission that offensive AI will outpace public tooling. Treat this as a lead indicator — your security posture now depends on private access to frontier models as much as on traditional vendors.
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