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An early checkpoint matches an unreleased rival on cyber tasks

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The UK's AI Security Institute found an early GPT-5.5 checkpoint matched or exceeded Anthropic's unreleased Mythos on advanced capture-the-flag cybersecurity tasks, while the NSA began testing Mythos to hunt vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.

Reporting date: 2026-05-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 1, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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An early checkpoint matches an unreleased rival on cyber tasks
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-01
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-01-an-early-checkpoint-matches-the-unreleased-frontier
Claim: The UK's AI Security Institute found an early GPT-5.5 checkpoint matched or exceeded Anthropic's unreleased Mythos on advanced capture-the-flag cybersecurity tasks, while the NSA began testing Mythos to hunt vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.
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- Welcome to May 1, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-1-2026
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