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Table of Contents improve AI safety, they also subject us to compliance with evolving industry practices, laws and regulations, and increased risks related to the processing of sensitive data, such as increased risks of harm or litigation if we experience a security incident or unauthorized access to or processing of data. Further, laws and regulations not originally enacted to address AI safety are being applied to AI safety and may be increasingly interpreted or enforced in ways that are inconsistent, unclear, novel, or subject to significant regulatory discretion. Any actual or perceived failure to comply with AI safety requirements or our processing of personal or sensitive data for AI safety, or any actual or perceived security incident involving such data, could result in investigations, litigation, fines, penalties, or other liability; require us to change our policies or practices; reduce customer demand or harm our reputation; require us to make public disclosures that could expose us to reputational and legal risks; and otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Any security breaches or other incidents, including those that affect our networks, systems, or data, or the networks, systems, or data of our service providers, suppliers, or customers, could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We store, handle, and otherwise process confidential, proprietary, and personal information, and our customers use our models, platform, and applications to process similarly sensitive information. We experience security risks, unintended exposure of or access to data, cyberattacks, and other attempts to gain unauthorized access to our information, sites, networks, systems, models, platform, and applications. These have resulted in, and may in the future result in, breaches of our security measures or those of our third-party service providers; unauthorized access to our sites, networks, systems, and accounts; unauthorized access to, and misappropriation of, personal, confidential, or proprietary information belonging to us, our customers, or others; viruses, worms, spyware, or other malware being served from our models, platform, and applications, networks, or systems; deletion or modification of content; the display of unauthorized content on our models, platform, and applications; interruption, disruption, or malfunction of operations; and other risks. We have in the past faced and in the future may face risks of phishing schemes and other cyberattacks, including by nation-states and state-sponsored actors, that continue to evolve in sophistication and volume, and may inherently be difficult to detect. Our proprietary model weights, corporate and financial data, and other core intellectual property represent particularly high-value targets for state-sponsored espionage and theft, and security researchers have identified frontier AI companies as priority targets for non-U.S. intelligence services. The efforts of such state-sponsored actors to target us will likely increase over time, especially as we develop models with next-generation capabilities, and they may specifically target models which have not, or have not yet, been released to the general public. For example, in light of its advanced cyber vulnerability discovery capabilities, state-sponsored actors may conduct cyberattacks specifically targeting Mythos. Our security capabilities continue to evolve, and certain aspects of our security program may not be sufficient to fully address the most sophisticated malicious actors, including well-resourced nation-state or state-sponsored groups, especially as those groups develop or obtain more powerful technology, which may include AI technology with offensive capabilities similar to those displayed by Mythos. While we are actively investing in and enhancing our security infrastructure and controls, we have operated in the past, and may in the future operate, for periods of time with known limitations or gaps in our defenses as we continue to mature our security posture, and no information security program can be expected to prevent all possible incidents. There can be no assurances that we will be able to prevent or adequately detect and defend against all cyberattacks or other cybersecurity incidents affecting our systems, including incidents caused by nation-state and state- sponsored actors. An unauthorized exfiltration of our model weights could enable adversaries to bypass significant research investment, eliminate key competitive advantages, and potentially raise national security concerns if such technology is acquired by malicious actors. Further, if our model weights were obtained by unauthorized actors, such actors may be able to deploy such models outside of our usage policies, safety mechanisms, or monitoring frameworks, which could enable harmful or misuse scenarios that our safeguards are designed to prevent and could subject us to regulatory, reputational, or public scrutiny for having developed such capabilities. We have faced and expect to face insider threat risks and vulnerabilities related to hiring processes, identity verification, remote work environments, and compromised devices that could enable unauthorized access to sensitive systems or information. We have been and expect that we will continue to be targeted by individuals seeking employment under false identities, or with ulterior or malicious motives for seeking employment with us and the third parties on which we rely. We also face the risk that employees, contractors, or other personnel 88
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