{"id":521789,"date":"2026-04-09T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:08:11","slug":"downing-street-meets-with-ai-firm-representatives-amid-cybersecurity-scare-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521789\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing Street Meets With AI Firm Representatives Amid Cybersecurity Scare \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning<\/a>. Along with other AI specialists<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model Mythos can identify critical vulnerabilities in a vast array of security systems (including national ones). It can do so with software that is more than 30 years old. Anthropic is keeping the model private for now while it arranges a consortium of firms and partners to shore up security systems before any wider release \u2013 this is called Project Glasswing<\/a>. So far the Russians and Chinese are still behind \u2013 No10 should get into those meetings ASAP\u2026<\/p>\n

The British government is also attempting<\/a> to court Anthropic amid its clash with the Pentagon in the US, exploring options for expansion and even a dual-listing in London. Separate AI firm and key Anthropic rival OpenAI has paused a major UK infrastructure project today citing energy costs and regulation. Labour at risk of shooting itself in the foot here\u2026<\/p>\n

Danny Kruger has written<\/a> to the government urging them to get ahead of the Mythos risks by engaging with Anthropic. To fend off \u201ccatastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning. Along with other AI specialists\u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,1119,733,4308,3907,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-downing-street","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}