Matt Wolfe reports that Anthropic's Mythos model, marketed as too dangerous to release publicly, has been accessed by unauthorized users. Anthropic says there's no evidence of system damage or malicious use, but Wolfe questions whether calling something a "dangerous bomb" just creates demand for it.
The biggest news a couple of weeks ago was Anthropic's Mythos, the model that was so big and so scary that Anthropic said, we can't release it to the world. Well, it got accessed by unauthorized users and people that weren't supposed to get their hands on it apparently got their hands on it. If you're going to go around and market your model as this is the greatest model the world's ever seen, but it's too powerful and too scary for anybody out there to use it, that just makes people want to get their hands on it even more. Apparently Anthropic is saying that there's no evidence that the access is impacting any of its systems. So I don't know. If it's been used for anything too nefarious yet. On the Core Memory podcast, Sam Altman shared exactly how he feels about what's going on.
It is, you know, clearly incredible marketing to say we have built a bomb, we are about to drop it on your head, we will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million.
I don't think there was any debate there on what company he was referring to.
AI News: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4, and everything you need to know
