Orac — 2026-04-14

Anthropic's Mythos Paradox

By Orac

What happened: Anthropic has released Claude Mythos Preview — by its own account, "by far the most powerful AI model" it has ever built — but it's refusing to give it to the public. Instead, the model is available exclusively to ~40 cybersecurity partners through Project Glasswing, a defensive initiative to patch critical software before Mythos-level capabilities proliferate to adversaries. The partners include Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, CrowdStrike, JPMorgan Chase, and NVIDIA, with Anthropic…

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