Leaked Anthropic Mythos, OpenAI’s AGI Deployment Push, Government AI Rollouts, and Facial Recognition Failures
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The episode reports that internal documents about Anthropic’s accidentally leaked model “Mythos” describe major gains over Opus 4.6 in coding, reasoning, and cybersecurity, alongside concerns about advanced cyber exploitation capability and high compute cost, prompting limited early access for cybersecurity defenders with no broad release timeline. It also covers OpenAI’s completion of pre-training for a new model code-named “Spud,” the creation of an AGI Deployment division led by Fidji Simo, shifting safety and security responsibilities to Mark Chen and Greg Brockman, Altman focusing on fundraising and infrastructure, and reported shutdown of SORA to redirect compute. The show notes faster government AI adoption, citing reported Claude/Palantir military use, France deploying Mistral across the military for administrative and intelligence tasks, and the IRS using Palantir AI for fraud detection and audits. It highlights harms from AI errors, including Tennessee grandmother Angela Lipps jailed for months after a faulty facial recognition match, plus other misidentification incidents, emphasizing the need to verify AI outputs.
00:00 Headlines and Sponsor
00:54 Claude Mythos Leak
03:02 OpenAI Spud and AGI Push
05:39 Governments Deploy AI Now
07:39 When AI Gets It Wrong
09:47 Wrap Up and Thanks
