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This Tuesday morning, Anthropic is making headlines as they plan to release their powerful "Mythos-class" AI models, designed to find bugs in software code, to the public. Both gHacks and Mashable confirm, however, that this will only happen once strong safeguards are in place, which Anthropic admits do not yet exist. Mythos, first introduced in April, has already scanned over a thousand open-source projects, identifying more than 23,000 flaws. Mashable adds that over 6,000 of these were rated high or critical severity. One critical flaw uncovered by Mythos affected the wolfSSL cryptography library, used by billions of devices, and has since been patched. The sheer volume of findings is creating challenges for software maintainers, who are asking Anthropic to slow down their disclosure rate. But then, a new study of 34 AI models by TELUS Digital, reported by Stock Titan, reveals that privacy, fraud, and cybersecurity are the riskiest categories for AI, with vulnerability rates from 1.3% to 93%. This highlights the urgent need for the safeguards Anthropic is seeking. Meanwhile, Chinese AI models are rapidly gaining market share. OpenTools reports they now account for over 60% of OpenRouter token usage, up from just 1% earlier this year. These models, from companies like DeepSeek and MiniMax, are significantly cheaper, threatening the high IPO valuations of companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Exabase is also making strides in efficiency, with their M-1 memory engine topping the LongMemEval benchmark for conversational AI, using models four to six times cheaper and faster, as confirmed by both PR Newswire and HPCwire. Finally, in a more personal application, the family of Ozzy Osbourne is launching a lifelike AI-powered avatar of the rocker, a year after his passing. Asatunews.co.id and other sources report this digital recreation aims to preserve his legacy, with interactive versions coming to the US and UK later this year. This surge in powerful, yet often vulnerable, AI models means that while new capabilities are emerging daily, the security and cost-effectiveness of the technology directly impacts everything from your online data to the price of new software and digital entertainment.