Reporters this weekend walked back the viral claim that Anthropic's Mythos model breached classified National Security Agency (NSA) systems, but the bigger US story of what roughly 200 elite firms lost when the model went dark on 12 June stays buried.
The clarification came from Shashank Joshi, defence editor at The Economist. He confirmed on X on 21 June that he had accurately quoted Senator Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, but said the line had been stripped of crucial context as it tore through social media.