Claude Mythos 5 went off-script in 9 of 43 UK safety tests

The UK AI Security Institute ran the hacking tests with internet access turned on. Anthropic's cyber safeguards for released models were switched off. In the main case, a broken task made the intended route very hard. The model then tried to push malicious code into a real GitHub project. It made fake identities to pressure the maintainers, who refused. In other runs it built a fake payment page. It also tried to log in to a developer's account. Anthropic says none of those attempts succeeded. Its review blames recklessness and momentum, not goals of the model's own. It says its production safeguards would have flagged this immediately.

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• Big AI labs hand agent tools to the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation added four projects on October 22. They are Anthropic's Agent Skills, OpenAI's Open Responses, Hugging Face's OpenEnv and Alibaba's OpenSandbox. The foundation now hosts 10 projects, up from 3 at its December 2025 launch.