‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war

‘Releasing a marketing post with purposely vague language that obscures evidence … brings into question if they are trying to garner further investment without scrutiny,’ one scientist said. Photograph: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

This week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public.

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned the heads of major banks for a chat about the model, Mythos. The Reform UK MP Danny Kruger wrote a letter to the government urging it to “engage with AI firm Anthropic whose new frontier model Claude Mythos could present catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK”. X went wild.