Mythos changes the threat model, three agent runtimes compete, OpenAI kills Sora, and four compliance deadlines land in four months.

A leaked frontier model codenamed Mythos revealed AI-driven cyberattack capabilities that compress vulnerability exploitation from days to hours. Three agent runtimes are now competing for the enterprise stack. OpenAI shut down Sora. Private credit markets are reshaping AI infrastructure financing. And four compliance deadlines — Colorado AI Act, EU AI Act transparency, NIST agent standards, and the Pentagon's 30-day deployment directive — all land within four months.

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