By Aisha Down
Publication Date: 2026-04-12 09:00:00
This week, AI company Anthropic said it had developed an AI model so powerful that it would not release it to the public out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent invited the heads of major banks to a discussion about the Mythos model. Reform UK MP Danny Kruger wrote a letter to the government calling on it to “work with AI firm Anthropic, whose new leading-edge model Claude Mythos could pose catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK.” X went wild.
Others were more skeptical, including noted AI critic Gary Marcus, who said, “Dario (Amodei) has far more technical skill than Sam (Altman), but appears to have gone through the same school of hype and exaggeration,” referring to the CEOs of Anthropic and its rival OpenAI.
It’s unclear whether Anthropic built the Machine God. What’s more obvious is that the San Francisco startup, widely considered the “responsible” AI company, is brilliant at marketing.
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