Mercor
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Mercor is an AI recruiting startup and AI training data contractor that suffered a security breach via the LiteLLM supply chain attack, leading Meta to pause its partnership after potentially exposing proprietary AI lab datasets.
We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History
Simultaneous coordinated breaches of the FBI, Lockheed Martin (375TB), and AI vendor Mercor by four distinct state/criminal actors signal an unprecedented escalation in parallel cyber warfare targeting US infrastructure and AI supply chains.
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model was breached despite company claims it was too dangerous to release, undermining its safety-first positioning.
A group of users leaked Anthropic’s AI model Mythos by reportedly guessing where it was located
Anthropic's Mythos model preview was exposed via infrastructure reconnaissance using previously disclosed details from a third-party contractor, granting unauthorized users continuous access without active exploitation.
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
Anthropic's Mythos vulnerability detector was breached via third-party vendor and subsequent testing reveals it's significantly overhyped—matching human researchers but delivering no advantage over existing public vulnerability tools.
How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists into Exploited Gig Workers
Venture capitalists including Thiel and Andreessen orchestrated federal science funding cuts while positioning portfolio companies Mercor and ScaleAI to profit from displaced PhDs annotating AI training data at $30/hour.