United Kingdom, April 8 -- Anthropic's newest AI model is to be made available to some of the planet's major cybersecurity and software companies.

The company's Mythos model will be accessible to Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, JPMorgan Chase and Microsoft for cyber defence purposes in a bid to slow the progress of hackers in the AI arms race.

Mythos is not yet ready for public launch because of how it can be abused by cybercriminals and spies - a prospect that has caused alarm in both Washington and Silicon Valley.

Experts say that the speed and scale of AI looking for vulnerabilities greatly exceed human capabilities and could herald a revolution for the cybersecurity sector.

For example, a single AI agent could scan for vulnerabiliti...