Posted on 06/25/2026 2:07:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A blacklisted Chinese company claims to have developed a "cyber nuclear weapon" that could be used to hack Western companies and governments.
Zhou Hongyi, the chief executive of cybersecurity company Qihoo 360, said it had built an AI system that matched the capabilities of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, the most powerful US AI technology.
Qihoo has been blacklisted by the US government since 2020 over claims that it is linked to the Chinese military. Earlier this month, the Pentagon accused Qihoo of being a "military civil fusion contributor to the Chinese defence industrial base" tied to Beijing's intelligence agencies.
...China will eventually be able to develop AI that can carry out sophisticated hacks.
Mythos, unveiled by Anthropic in April, was described as "reshaping cybersecurity" because of its ability to uncover thousands of previously unknown bugs in software and exploit them.
Anthropic initially withheld Mythos from the public over concerns it was too dangerous to release. It later offered it to a handful of business customers, while the National Security Agency, the US equivalent of GCHQ, trialled the AI to find flaws in classified government systems.
However, Anthropic was forced to withdraw the AI entirely after the White House imposed export controls on the technology over fears hackers could bypass its safeguards and carry out attacks.
Mr Zhou, speaking at an internet security conference in China, said that Mythos was the "equivalent to a cyber nuclear weapon in the AI era" and a "strategic asset" to the US.
He said that Qihoo had developed its own system, called Tulongfeng, which he billed as a "Chinese version of Mythos, possessing similar vulnerability discovery capabilities".
While not as powerful as Mythos, he said it could be paired with Qihoo's other technologies resulting in a hacking tool equivalent to Anthropic's system.
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1. AI
2. Cyber
3. Nuclear
Now that is terrifying.
I think that Serbian hackers can beat Chinese hackers any day of the week!!
The TRIAD of modern fear!
Wait... We need something about data centers and the Strait of Hormuz...
AI is just code
“AI is just code”
And I would like to know what the code is actually doing.
The Chinese are gonna destroy the world
Does that mean it will remotely fizzle my Mac using Dos and updating the config.sys? So last century.
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