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This is a day late because, given the discourse around Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, I pushed the weekly to Friday. This week's coverage focused on the most important model in a while, Claude Mythos, which was a large jump in cybersecurity capabilities, especially in its ability to autonomously assemble complex exploits of even the world's most important software. As a result, Mythos has been made available only to a select group of cybersecurity firms, in what is known as Project Glasswing, to allow them to patch the world's most important software while there is still time. Post one was about The System Card. Post two was about cybersecurity capabilities and Project Glasswing. Post three covered capabilities and any additional notes. Another development was at least one physical attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The attempt failed, but we might not be so lucky if there is a next time. I have a final section on this here, but mostly I said everything I need to say already: Political Violence Is Never Acceptable. I also found the space for an Agentic Coding update, especially covering Claude Code's new highly [...] ---Outline:(03:24) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(06:59) Language Models Dont Offer Mundane Utility(10:09) Levels of Friction(12:23) Huh, Upgrades(12:42) On Your Marks(12:57) Lack of Cybersecurity(14:39) Meta Game(21:27) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(22:19) A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer(24:06) Let My People Go(25:16) You Drive Me Crazy(25:55) They Took Our Jobs(30:51) They Gave Us Time Off(36:41) Get Involved(37:54) Introducing(38:20) In Other AI News(43:33) Thanks For The Memos(46:29) Show Me the Money(48:31) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble(49:14) Quickly, Theres No Time(49:57) The Quest for Sane Regulations(52:28) Our Offer Is Nothing(58:00) The Week in Audio(58:20) Rhetorical Innovation(01:04:29) Political Violence Is Never The Answer(01:07:45) A Lot Of People Peacefully Speak Of Infinitely High Stakes(01:09:19) Take a Moment(01:13:02) Greetings From The Department of War(01:18:05) Political Pressure At Google DeepMind(01:18:45) Things That Are Basically Legal And Accepted Now, Somehow(01:19:41) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:25:26) Aligning a Current Model For Mundane Tasks Is Also Difficult(01:26:37) Everyone Is Confused About AI Consciousness(01:29:19) The Lighter Side --- First published: April 17th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Mf2sbJ3zacTPaGySg/ai-164-pre-opus --- 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.