Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

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Mozilla details how agentic AI harnesses using Claude Mythos Preview found 271 real Firefox security bugs by dynamically creating reproducible test cases and dismissing false positives.

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