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Anthropic Withholds Latest Model After It Went Rogue In Testing; Launches "Project Glasswing" To Secure Critical Software Still smarting from its embarrassing source code leak, Anthropic announced it will not release its latest frontier AI model, Mythos, to the public, saying the model is too powerful in ways that introduce elevated cybersecurity risk. In internal testing, Anthropic said the model surfaced thousands of high‑severity “zero‑day” vulnerabilities (previously unknown flaws) across every major operating system and web browser, materially outperforming its prior flagship (CyberGym vulnerability reproduction: 83.1% vs. 66.6% for Opus 4.6).   “Given the...

The US military has identified the third soldier killed by an Iranian missile attack in Jordan on July 17 as Iran continues targeting US bases across the region, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed it inflicted more US casualties. The soldier, Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, was initially reported […]

"Working Better": Saylor Teases BTC Buy After Strategy Sells For First Time Since 2022 Bitcoin is extending its recent weakness overnight (hurt by US-Iran tensions escalating again), trading back below its 100DMA after Strategy (MSTR) sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 at an average net price of $77,135 a coin, totaling $2.5 million (disclosed in an 8-K filing on Monday). Proceeds from the bitcoin sales are expected to be used to fund distributions on preferred stock, the firm said. This is the first time Strategy has sold bitcoin since December 2022,...