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Pentagon shock as AI system breaks into secret government networks during test, official confirms | The Independent

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News reports say an artificial-intelligence model developed by Anthropic, called Mythos, identified vulnerabilities in classified U.S. government systems during a test. At least one report describes the discovery as the model "breaking into" secret government networks, and an official is reported to have confirmed the incident. The coverage says the finding exposed significant weaknesses and prompted alarm inside the Pentagon.

The accounts name the company (Anthropic) and the model (Mythos) and link the event to testing rather than an operational deployment. Reporting frames the episode as a security lapse revealed by an external AI system, which has spurred immediate concern about how AI tools are tested against or interact with sensitive government networks.

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