Anthropic's Mythos is a cyber-weapon, so you can't have it | E2273

All right, everybody, welcome to Twist. It's April 8th, 2026. My co-host Alex is with me. We've got a bunch of guests today, and we've got a major breaking news story, which is that Anthropic released a promo video and a thread that their new model, Alex, is so powerful that they cannot release it. We knew this day would come.

The day is here. Why can't they release it? They believe when they tested it, or they found out when they tested it, that it would try to escape. That was one issue, but a bigger issue was it could find exploits in 10, 20, 30-year-old software projects that, and it could thread together multiple security vulnerabilities. Catch everybody up in the audience on this incredibly important story.

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