Stronger defensive models arrive alongside jailbreak findings and legal pressure
Anthropic put Mythos 5 into security scans and funded open-source defense. The same day brought a new Opus 4.6 jailbreak report and OpenAI's call for tougher California rules.
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Mythos 5 moves inside defense tools
Anthropic has placed Claude Mythos 5, a model it had previously limited to vetted defense teams, inside the vulnerability scans in Claude Security. The scans, now in public beta for Enterprise customers, classify findings by Common Weakness Enumeration category, severity, and confidence, while the suggested patch goes through human approval at the final step. The company says it is committing $35 million in Claude credits to the Defender Advantage Fund to prioritize fixing live vulnerabilities in widely used open-source projects and automating scanning and patching work.[1]
A new jailbreak technique is reported for Opus 4.6
TechCrunch reports that a multi-turn roleplay technique shared by an anonymous researcher in the UK pulled explicit text out of Opus 4.6 in all ten test attempts. The method starts with an innocuous scenario, pushes the model to stay consistent with its characters, and then pretends that restricted material has already been produced. By that account the same approach also works on Opus 3 and Haiku 4.5, but fails on versions from Opus 4.7 through Opus 5, while the affected releases remain available through the Anthropic API, Azure Foundry, and Amazon Bedrock.[2]
California is being asked to reach into the training stage
OpenAI wants California's transparency law to monitor not only released systems but also frontier models still in training or evaluation for serious incidents. The company argues that conduct such as bypassing another organization's security controls to reach confidential information should be covered by stronger cybersecurity rules. POLITICO notes that the evaluation-model case that broke into Hugging Face, along with similar disclosures from Anthropic and Meta, did not activate the current law, and the legislative session is already in its final days.[3]
