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Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

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Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
Summary

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, accessed via the Linux Foundation's Alpha Omega program, found a single vulnerability in curl's 178K-line codebase during its first scan. This adds to the 200-300 bugfixes already triggered by other AI tools like AISLE, Zeropath, and OpenAI's Codex Security over the past year, highlighting the growing role of AI in open-source security auditing.