Anthropic’s Claude Mythos puts cryptography to the test

Artificial intelligence (AI) may have crossed a new frontier: cryptography, one of the foundations of global digital security.Anthropic, the company behind AI assistant Claude, said Tuesday that its Claude Mythos Preview prototype uncovered new theoretical vulnerabilities in two cryptographic algorithms. The company says the breakthrough highlights AI’s rapid progress in a field long dominated by specialists.The findings do not pose a threat to systems currently in use, but suggest that AI models are becoming capable of contributing to cryptographic research, a field that until now has largely remained the preserve of experts.Cryptography relies on "digital locks" that protect data online by making it unreadable to anyone without authorization. It is fundamental to how the internet works, securing everything from banking...