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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 [...] ---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(29:08) Fun With Media Generation(29:50) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer(30:53) They Took Our Jobs(37:45) After They Take Our Jobs(39:16) Gell-Mann Amnesia(41:33) Get Involved(43:25) In Other AI News(46:41) Show Me the Money(51:08) Quiet Speculations(51:59) Explaining Persistent Model Parity(55:37) Take a Moment(01:00:54) OpenAI: The Histories(01:06:04) The Department of AI War(01:12:38) Department of AI Solidarity(01:13:46) Writing For The AIs(01:16:42) Quickly, Theres No Time(01:16:46) The Quest for Sane Regulations(01:18:10) Chip City(01:20:07) You Received The Federal Framework(01:21:02) The Week in Audio(01:24:22) Rhetorical Innovation(01:27:48) I Am The Very Human Of A Frontier Language Model(01:38:01) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:41:22) Aligning Fake Graphs Can Also Be Difficult(01:49:32) The Lighter Side --- First published: April 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iBeTkFuQwjaRPo3Ad/ai-162-visions-of-mythos --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.