Anthropic had some problem with leaks this week. We learned that they are sitting on a new larger-than-Opus AI model, Mythos, that they believe offers a step change in cyber capabilities. We also got a full leak of the source for Claude Code. Oh, and Axios was compromised, on the heels of LiteLLM. This looks to be getting a lot more common. Defense beats offense in most cases, but offense is getting a lot more shots on goal than it used to. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Aplocayloptimist came out this week. I gave it 4.5/5 stars, and I think the world would be better off if more people saw it. I am not generally a fan of documentary movies, but this is probably my new favorite, replacing The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. There was also the usual background hum of quite a lot of things happening, including the latest iterations of various debates. We may or may not be doomed to die, but we are definitely doomed to repeat certain motions quite a few more times, and for people to be rather slow to update. We got some very welcome quiet on the [...]

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Outline:

(01:41) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:00) Heads In The Sand

(07:05) Huh, Upgrades

(08:10) Mythos

(12:07) Whats In A Name

(14:59) On Your Marks

(16:10) Choose Your Fighter

(16:53) Get My Agent On The Line

(17:31) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(24:33) Cyber Lack Of Security

“AI #162: Visions of Mythos” by Zvi

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Benchmark Artifacts and VLM Mirages

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