Crypto Hack Fears Grow Around Anthropic’s Possible Claude Fable Release

Crypto markets face fresh hacking fears as Anthropic prepares to release a powerful AI model Fable that could speed up the exploits behind $600 million in recent thefts.

Key Points

• Anthropic is set to launch Claude Fable, the public version of its Mythos model, as soon as today.
• Commentators warn the release could trigger short-term FUD and price chop across digital assets.
• The timing is tense, with crypto hacks topping $600 million since early April.

Claude Fable Launch Rattles Markets

The Information reported that the firm will ship the public version today as Claude Fable, a system the company has warned could threaten global financial infrastructure. The underlying model, codenamed Mythos, has sat behind a restricted program for banks, exchanges and security firms since April. That group, run under a project called Glasswing, included AWS, Microsoft, Apple and CrowdStrike.

Prediction market Polymarket put the odds of a launch today at 84%. The timing is striking, arriving as the startup chases a U.S. public listing that could value it near $1 trillion, just as rival OpenAI files its own.

The Milk Road Flags DeFi Exposure

Market commentator The Milk Road warned that the launch could stir short-term FUD and choppy crypto prices, even if a major hack stays unlikely. The likelier path, the group argued, is that AI-audited code becomes the norm. Serious DeFi teams could then harden their protocols faster than attackers manage to break them, turning the model into a defensive tool as much as an offensive one.