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OpenAI introduces «Chronicle,» a tool constantly screenshotting your desktop

The new feature is tailored to high-output work environments, or it would be a privacy disaster. (Picture: Adobe)

The new feature is an agent observing your screen all the time you work, storing screenshots as «memories» to better help with context for your Codex tasks.

— Over time, it helps Codex learn how you work: the tools you use, the projects you return to, and the workflows you rely on, OpenAI croons on x.com.

The point is to learn even more detail about you, from how you prefer your code to the tools and apps you use to perform. This can then later be recalled by Codex.

Notwithstanding the privacy concerns from Windows Recall, which also uses AI to take and store screenshots of your desktop, OpenAI is warning that the screenshots are even stored unencrypted on your computer.

They also warn that it eats up rate limits quickly, is very prone to prompt injection attacks and is only available on the $200 Pro subscription, as a research preview on macOS. Once enabled, it can be paused at any time in a menu item.

In spite of government ban, the US NSA is actively using Anthropic’s Mythos

With compelling technology from Mythos, other agencies might not be far behind. (Picture: Shutterstock)

Sources in contact with Axios claim the National Security Agency, the premier digital spying agency, is widely using Anthropic’s Mythos

The model was deemed too dangerous to be released, but is available to about 40 select organizations through Project Glasswing, which uses its advanced cyber capabilities to scan for exploits and vulnerabilities — before the rest of the world catches up.

This is in spite of a Trump government ban on Anthropic and it being labeled a national security threat by the DoD this February after refusing to comply with Pentagon demands.

Anthropic held a meeting with the White House this Friday, said to be «productive and constructive,» Reuters reports.

Read more: Axios, Engadget, and Reuters

OpenAI announces ChatGPT-5.4-Cyber, a permissive vulnerability researcher

Only the most trusted cybersecurity pros will get access to the advanced model. (Picture: OpenAI)

The new Cyber model has fewer restraints than other available bots to let cybersecurity professionals game out and test for vulnerabilities.

These kinds of tasks would normally get refusals for security reasons, but with Cyber access, developers can go as far as reverse engineering entire apps to poke for bugs.

The model is based on ChatGPT-5.4, but OpenAI says they are expanding the entire Cyber program now «in preparation for increasingly capable models over the next few months […] whose capabilities will rapidly exceed even the best purpose-built models of today.»

The release comes hot on the heels of Anthropic’s Mythos model and «Project Glasswing,» said to be so advanced they won’t release the full model.

To get access to GPT-5.4-Cyber, you have to first verify that you are a cybersecurity professional with OpenAI, and even then you might get «limited» access based on a tier system.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Reuters and Axios.

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, greatly advancing cybersecurity

Project Glasswing pokes holes in almost any software, and if it isn’t used defensively now — attackers might soon. (Picture: Anthropic)

Anthropic has been cooking up the Mythos model lately, that internal documents had put as «a sea-change in capabilities,» and was too dangerous to release publicly.

Instead, they are releasing Project Glasswing, having found it to be especially suited for «an effort to secure the world’s most critical software.» It won’t take long for others to catch up, Anthropic says, and this is «an urgent attempt to put these capabilities to work» defensively.

Launch partners include a who’s who of Silicon Valley giants, and Anthropic claims it has already found thousands of vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser.

The Mythos Preview model scores 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified compared to Opus 4.6 with 80.8%, and on SWE-bench Pro it is 77.8% vs 53.4%.

Smaller actors maintaining critical software will enjoy $100 million in usage credit donations from Anthropic — but for others it will cost a whopping $25/125 per million input/output tokens.

Chinese AI labs created 24K accounts and «distilled» 16 million messages from Claude

Chinese attacks risk bypassing the safeguards Anthropic builds into its models. (Picture: Anthropic)

Anthropic claims to have discovered industrial scale extraction of Claude data from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax.

The massive attacks were used to improve their own models with agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding capabilities, violating Anthropic’s Terms of Service and creating a national security risk, they say.

Distillation works by sending millions of prompts to an AI to incorporate its techniques and capabilities into their own models, drastically reducing training time and costs.

They also circumvent Anthropic’s protections for use in developing bioweapons and malicious cyber activities, Anthropic says. Once these models are open sourced, this becomes available to anyone.

OpenAI said the same just last week, accusing DeepSeek of distillation.

— These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication. The window to act is narrow, and the threat extends beyond any single company or region, Anthropic writes.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget and The Verge.

OpenAI sees rise in China-based ChatGPT abuse

OpenAI reports on Cyber Threats using ChatGPT. — We should probably be more worried about what ChatGPT *doesn’t* catch. (Picture: howtostartablogonline.net, CC BY 2.0)

China and Iran are using ChatGPT for influence operations, while North Korea and Russia looks for jobs backdoors and malicious code.

Out of the ten campaigns identified in OpenAIs new report «Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI», four were from China.

Supercharging influence ops
Chinese groups have used ChatGPT for mostly adversarial influence operations, writes Reuters, generating social media posts on political tops including on a Taiwanese video game, accusations against a Pakistani activist and content related to the closure of USAID.

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