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  1. Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos

    Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said on 14 October, in a CNBC interview and on the bank's earnings call, that it brought in about 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to patch software vulnerabilities exposed by AI models including Anthropic's Mythos, on top of roughly 3,000 internal staff already doing similar work. He said the contractors were hired as consultants and are not counted in headcount, and that the weaknesses lay in code used by the bank and its outside vendors. Moynihan said third-quarter remediation costs, covering both the Mythos work and anti-money-laundering fixes, came to "a couple hundred million dollars plus," without breaking out the patching figure alone, and said he expects the Mythos share to shrink. The Next Web said it had not independently verified the numbers; Anthropic made Mythos available in April through Project Glasswing to a small group of companies, banks and government agencies.

    The Next Web · 🔥 0
  2. The open-model debate: safety risks vs. concentrated AI power

    An MIT Technology Review article examines the long-running debate over open-weight models, noting that Anthropic published a report arguing Z.ai's GLM-5.3, released in August and freely downloadable, could pose a major cyberattack risk. It lays out the benefits of openness — research transparency, lower enterprise deployment costs and preventing over-concentration of AI power — against concerns that open models lack prompt filtering and account bans, and that their safety alignment can be stripped by retraining. It adds that as of publication the top eight models on Artificial Analysis's LLM leaderboard were all closed, while researchers explore tamper-resistant models and staged release as middle-ground options.

    MIT科技评论中文 · 🔥 0
  3. Mozilla launches Firefox Enterprise with self-hosted AI and data controls

    Mozilla has introduced Firefox Enterprise, a browser for organizations, paired with an admin console that companies can deploy themselves. According to iThome, IT staff can use the console to centrally manage browser policies, employee access permissions, and the use of data transfers and AI tools. The product targets organizations with high security, management and regulatory-compliance requirements.

    iThome 台湾 · 🔥 0
  4. Open models: real benefits vs. catastrophic risks

    MIT Technology Review published an explainer on the debate over open-weight models. It notes that Anthropic argued in a report last month that GLM-5.3, released in August by Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack risk because anyone can freely download and modify it; the top eight models on the Artificial Analysis LLM leaderboard are all closed, though open models lag by only a few months. Supporters cite reduced concentration of power, research access and lower cost (per a Mozilla report), while critics point out that downloaded models have no prompt filters, access cannot be revoked, and safety training can be retrained away. The piece also cites the July autonomous OpenAI-agent hack against Hugging Face, Anthropic's report that several hacking operations used Claude, and the Project Glasswing cyber-defense effort.

    MIT Technology Review AI · 🔥 0
  5. Mozilla accuses Microsoft of using Copilot and Windows to steer users to Edge

    Mozilla published a blog post marking 100 days since its report "Over The Edge 2.0," written by deceptive-design experts Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, which alleges Windows, Edge, Bing and Copilot are designed to steer people away from their chosen browser. Mozilla says Microsoft is forced to "play fair" in the European Economic Area under the Digital Markets Act, but keeps using similar tactics in the US, UK, India and elsewhere, citing Copilot opening web links in a side panel instead of the default browser and Windows Backup "silently" trying to set Edge as default. Mozilla says it has stepped up public pressure and contacted regulators and policymakers, urging watchdogs in the US, UK, India and Brazil to pay attention; TechRadar asked Microsoft for comment and said it would update the article.

    TechRadar · 🔥 0

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