Anthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implications

Anthropic Mythos garnered significant attention when it was launched in mid-April 2026. Yet despite it apparently presenting an unprecedented threat to global software, you don't have to look to closely to see that this was an effective product launch as much as a story about the grave security risks of today's AI models. But this isn't to say there aren't important implications for software developers, security professionals and other technologists. In this episode of the Technology Podcast, one of our new hosts Nate Schutta is joined by Chris Kramer to discuss Anthropic Mythos and Project Glasswing, unpacking what's hype and what really matters. A few links for this episode: Some more information about Project Glasswing: A story about how a small Discord group briefly had access to Mythos: How Mozilla used Mythos to discover Firefox bugs:

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Anthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implications is an episode from ThoughtWorks Podcast by Thoughtworks.

This episode is 48:50 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2026.

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