This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber

Mythos Showdown: Inside Dario Amodei's White House Talks

After its recent clash with the US Government over military use of AI, Anthropic is back at the White House, this time to discuss the implications of their most powerful AI model yet – Claude Mythos. 

The White House's interest in the technology comes from the capability of Mythos to dig out thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used software to create potent exploit chains.

Hence, should this model fall into the wrong hands, it would have dire consequences for cyber security. 

AI visionary and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles recently, where they discussed how the technology could achieve a balance between "advancing innovation and ensuring safety,” as a White House statement notes. 

Akamai Research: Why are Women Leaving Cybersecurity?

Women have been facing an uphill battle in the tech industry, with many of them leaving cybersecurity roles at pivotal points in their careers. 

A UK-wide report commissioned by Akamai sheds light on this issue and is based on answers from 1,500 women across the UK, 1,000 of who have left a tech role and 500 have returned to tech after a career break.

According to Akamai, 55% of women leave tech roles or tech companies within five years of being in the industry and 87% leave within 10 years.

“We lose women from cybersecurity at the exact moment their expertise becomes most valuable,” says Zoe Mackenzie, President of Women in CyberSecurity for UK and Ireland.

“This isn’t a pipeline problem, it's a leadership one. Diverse teams build stronger defences. Until organisations commit to inclusive leadership, not just diversity hiring, they are actively weakening their own security posture.”

GPT 5.4-Cyber: What is OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber?

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4-Cyber – a specialised model built specifically for defensive security operations.

Offering US$10m commitment through its Cybersecurity Grant Program and expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) programme – which provides vetted security professionals with controlled access to advanced AI capabilities designed exclusively for defensive use – OpenAI is solidifying its position among the leaders in AI cyber defence. 

The move represents a significant development for cybersecurity practitioners as AI-powered tools become increasingly central to threat detection and vulnerability management.

TAC comes at a time when security teams are grappling with the dual-edged nature of AI in cybersecurity. While these tools offer powerful defensive capabilities, the same technologies could potentially be leveraged by threat actors.

What is UK Government's Plan for National Cyber Defence?

Amid the explosion of frontier AI models and their unique cyber strengths, the UK Government is calling on AI companies to bolster the country’s national cyber defence capabilities.

A commitment of £90 million (US$120m) has also been made to secure defences of small and medium sized businesses, which forms the backbone of the economy. 

Taken in the context of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT 5.4-Cyber – capable models that can hunt for vulnerabilities at machine speed – the repercussions of the adversarial usage of these would be momentous. 

“Today I’m making a call to action for leading AI companies and UK innovators to work with the UK Government to build AI cyber defence capabilities,” says the UK’s Security Minister, Dan Jarvis MBE.

Infor: Crossing the Data Security Barrier in Scaling AI

While business confidence in AI continues to strengthen, the reality for many enterprises is that deployment at scale brings significant cybersecurity and data governance challenges.

New research from Infor reveals that more than half of businesses are struggling to scale AI securely, with data protection concerns emerging as the primary barrier to implementation.

Aimed at addressing this critical gap between ambition and secure execution, industry cloud provider Infor has introduced new capabilities across its Velocity Suite and Infor Agentic Orchestrator, delivering industry-specific solutions built on secure, compliant architecture.

"At Infor, agentic AI isn't a feature we bolted on. It's the culmination of two decades of deliberate foundation building," Kevin Samuelson says, CEO of Infor.

"Our industry-specific platforms, multi-tenant architecture and deep process intelligence give our agents a level of contextual precision that generic AI simply cannot replicate.