14 May 2026

Top Pentagon tech officials optimistic Mythos-style AI tools will improve cyber defense

Sydney J. Freedberg Jr

WASHINGTON — Amidst anxiety about Anthropic’s as yet unreleased Mythos model, whose much-hyped hacking ability has raised fears of a looming “bugmageddon,” two top Pentagon tech leaders said this morning they were optimistic that Mythos — and future models like it — could help cyber defenders even more.

“I hear a lot of people talking about challenges and threats when they talk about Mythos,” said Katherine Sutton, Assistant Secretary for Cyber Policy, told the SCSP AI+Expo this morning. “[But] there’s huge opportunity in these models. One of the foundational things that they’re going to enable is the development of secure code.”

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