Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Anthropic suffers multiple sensitive data leaks…OpenAI ditches Sora, and loses its deal with Disney…Mistral raises money for AI data center drive…AI could reduce political polarization…and why countries that are late to adopt AI could be in even worse economic shape than you think.
The big news this week was my colleague Beatrice Nolan’s scoop from Friday that Anthropic has trained a new AI model, called “Mythos” (Capybara seems to be the internal code name for the same model), that the company says represents a “step change” in capabilities. Anthropic is particularly worried about the cybersecurity risks the model poses. Ironically, we found out about this new model because Anthropic inadvertently spilled the beans by leaving a draft blog post about it in an unsecured and publicly searchable database—along with other potentially sensitive documents about an upcoming CEO retreat and some internal documents that mentioned employees’ paternity leave.
Now, just today, it appears Anthropic has suffered another major security lapse, accidentally leaking the code of the agentic harness that sits around Claude Code. Bea has more on this latest, and potentially more consequential, data leak here. Meanwhile, Axios reports that the new cybersecurity capabilities of AI models are getting so concerning that Anthropic and OpenAI have both recently told the government about the new dangers of the models they are developing and provided government security experts with early access.
