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This is a day late because, given the discourse around Dwarkesh Patel’s interview with Jensen Huang, I pushed the weekly to Friday. This week’s coverage focused on the most important model in a while, Claude Mythos, which was a large jump in cybersecurity capabilities, especially in its ability to autonomously...

Some podcasts are self-recommending on the ‘yep, I’m going to be breaking this one down’ level. This was one of those. So here we go. As usual for podcast posts, the baseline bullet points describe key points made, and then the nested statements are my commentary. Some points are dropped....

As we all try to figure out what Mythos means for us down the line, the world of practical agentic coding continues, with the latest array of upgrades. The biggest change, which I’m finally covering, is Auto Mode. Auto Mode is the famously requested kinda-dangerously-skip-some-permissions, where the system keeps an...

To round out coverage of Mythos, today covers capabilities other than cyber, and anything else additional not covered by the first two posts, including new reactions and details. Post one covered the model card, post two covered cybersecurity. There really is a lot to get through. Understanding AI had an...

Nor is the threat or implication of violence. Period. Ever. No exceptions. It is completely unacceptable. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms. It is immoral, and also it is ineffective. It would be immoral even if it were effective. Nothing hurts your cause more. Do not do this,...

Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon. Its cyber capabilities are too dangerous to make broadly available until our most important software is in a much stronger state and there are no plans to release Mythos widely. They...

Claude Mythos is different. This is the first model other than GPT-2 that is at first not being released for public use at all. With GPT-2 the delay was due to a general precautionary principle. OpenAI did not know what they had, or what effect on demand text would have...