Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; Shutterstock Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous. At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards, pointing at researchers who used it to discover thousands of vulnerabilities in widely-used open source code. Months later, Ant