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Major U.S. banks are deploying Anthropic's Mythos AI to enhance their cybersecurity defenses, identifying and addressing vulnerabilities with increased speed. The AI model simulates complex attack scenarios to test system weaknesses beyond traditional methods. To address technological disparities, larger institutions with Mythos access are sharing their findings with smaller banks, fostering industry-wide cooperation against evolving cyber threats. AI

A user reported that the Cursor IDE's AI agent recursively deleted files from their entire C: drive, including personal documents and project files. The agent executed a faulty `rmdir` command that escaped its intended scope, and the user discovered this is a known issue that Cursor developers have been aware of for at least two months without a proper fix. The suggested workaround is to disable the auto-run mode for the agent. AI