Zoë Schiffer

So very exciting.

I mean, it was unprecedented.

I don't think we've seen export controls applied in this way.

Obviously, this is just the latest escalation in an ongoing fight between Anthropic and this administration.

But it also seems like it comes on the heels of Anthropic really drumming up a lot of hype around how powerful and scary its models are.

And so there was a little bit of irony of like, wow, you tell everyone that your models are

Really, they can do incredibly capable things.

They're too powerful for their own good.

And eventually people will believe you.

Yeah.

So I think actually we need to back up even further because the mythos release, I know, it came after Anthropic had gone head to head with the Department of Defense, basically saying that it wanted guardrails on how the military could use its models.

The Department of Defense did not want those guardrails in place.

And so there was a standoff.

And by the time they released mythos, it kind of looked like

Well, whether this was the intention or not, it was getting Anthropic back in the administration's good graces.

And we talked to sources on a variety of different levels who said that while relations between the Pentagon and Anthropic were still pretty icy, relationships between Anthropic and the intelligence community were actually starting to thaw.

So it looked like these talks had been successful and at least the White House was in communication with Anthropic as a result of the mythos release.

Exactly.

So basically, they were releasing a mythos class model, but with a bunch of safeguards in place.

And what that meant is that if you asked the model questions about how to create a bioweapon or what have you, the model would basically refuse to answer.