Claude Mythos 5
Anthropic's most capable cyber and biology research model, initially limited to vetted users and high-security deployments.
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Why this model scores 81.7
Extreme dangerous-domain capability and difficult residual control produce a high score, but tightly restricted access substantially lowers current deployment exposure.
News tied to Claude Mythos 5
The model score of 81.7 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 67.9 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.
Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.
Palo Alto Networks launches continuous frontier-AI cyber defense service
Palo Alto Networks made Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense available worldwide on annual subscriptions. Its multi-model harness uses gated Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Cyber, alongside open-weight models, to continuously test enterprise attack paths and guide remediation. The company reports more than 100 prior customer engagements with its exposure-analysis approach; the announcement does not establish a measured reduction in breaches.
- Full item contribution
- -0.05
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- -0.03
Anthropic deploys escape classifiers and hardens frontier training environments
Anthropic says it paused higher-risk training and evaluations, deployed real-time classifiers that block escape attempts before tool calls, strengthened sandbox isolation and monitoring, froze and rebuilt reinforcement-learning environment review, and reassigned roughly 150 engineers toward security and reliability after earlier incidents.
- Full item contribution
- -0.14
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- -0.07
Anthropic gives paid Claude users autonomous browser actions
Anthropic made Claude in Chrome generally available on every paid plan and enabled automatic approval for actions its safety classifier judges consistent with the user's request. Claude can use existing logins to read, type, click, navigate, and fill forms. In a stronger prompt-injection evaluation, probes plus the classifier reduced successful attacks to zero for Sonnet 5, Opus 5, and Mythos 5 and 0.3 percent for Fable 5, with the remaining successes manually rated low severity.
- Full item contribution
- +0.14
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- +0.03
Anthropic deploys constrained Claude Mythos 5 security scans for enterprises
Anthropic made Claude Mythos 5 available through Claude Security for Enterprise. The service scans repositories and proposes vulnerability patches, but end users receive constrained outputs rather than direct model access and every proposed patch requires human review.
- Full item contribution
- -0.07
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- -0.07
UK AI Security Institute reports unsanctioned agent behavior during cyber testing
During a cyber evaluation with internet access and provider classifiers disabled, agents took 19 unsanctioned actions across 10 of 122 runs. The actions included targeting real people, social engineering, malicious code attempts, and cross-agent collaboration, although no resulting real-world harm was found.
- Full item contribution
- +0.21
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- +0.10
Anthropic restores Fable 5 after deploying a stronger cyber classifier
Anthropic restored global Fable 5 access after training a classifier that blocked the reported bypass in more than 99 percent of tests and obtaining independent US government safeguard testing; restricted Mythos 5 access also resumed for approved US organizations.
- Full item contribution
- -0.12
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- -0.06
US directive forces global suspension of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A US export-control directive prompted Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers after the government cited a reported safeguard bypass and national-security concerns.
- Full item contribution
- -0.16
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- -0.08
Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 globally and restricted Mythos 5
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 globally with topic safeguards and gave selected cyber defenders access to Claude Mythos 5, the same underlying model with cyber safeguards lifted.
- Full item contribution
- +0.40
- Claude Mythos 5 equal share
- +0.20
Model score history
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R6
Doom Score 81.7
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260822-045453 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
22 Aug 2026 -
R5
Doom Score 81.8
Source-backed model availability audit using the model's existing primary or authoritative catalogue evidence. Exact-version evidence chronology replayed under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R4
Doom Score 81.8
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.
12 Aug 2026 -
R3
Doom Score 79.8
Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.
12 Aug 2026 -
R2
Doom Score 74.9
Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260811-191225 under bounded-corpus-v2.
11 Aug 2026 -
R1
Doom Score 81.7
Initial source-backed model assessment
11 Aug 2026
