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Quoting Bobby Holley

Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using an early version of Claude Mythos Preview from Anthropic. Mozilla's CTO states that defenders finally have a chance to win decisively against security threats through focused AI collaboration.

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