{"id":48461,"date":"2026-04-12T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48461"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:04:41","slug":"too-powerful-for-the-public-inside-anthropics-bid-to-win-the-ai-publicity-war-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48461","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too powerful for the public\u2019: inside Anthropic\u2019s bid to win the AI publicity war | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it<\/a> to the public.<\/p>\n

The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned the heads of major banks for a chat about the model, Mythos. The Reform UK MP Danny Kruger wrote a letter to the government urging it to \u201cengage with AI firm Anthropic<\/a> whose new frontier model Claude Mythos could present catastrophic cybersecurity risks to the UK\u201d. X went wild.<\/p>\n

Others were more sceptical, including the noted AI critic Gary Marcus, who said: \u201cDario [Amodei] has far more technical chops than Sam [Altman], but seems to have graduated from the same school of hype and exaggeration,\u201d referring to the CEOs of Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear if Anthropic has built the machine god. What is more apparent is that the San Francisco startup widely seen as the \u201cresponsible\u201d AI company is brilliant at marketing.<\/p>\n

In the past months, Anthropic has enjoyed a 10,000-word profile in the New Yorker, two pieces in the Wall Street Journal, and the front cover of Time magazine, on which Amodei\u2019s face was emblazoned, movie-poster style, above the Pentagon and the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n

Amodei and Anthropic\u2019s co-founder, Jack Clark, appeared on two separate New York Times podcasts in February, chewing over questions such as whether their machine was conscious, and if it might soon \u201crip through the economy\u201d. The company\u2019s \u201cresident philosopher\u201d has spoken to the WSJ about whether Claude \u2013 a commercial product being used to trade cryptocurrency and designate missile targets \u2013 has a \u201csense of self\u201d.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Dario Amodei \u2018has far more technical chops\u2019 than the OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, said one AI critic, \u2018but seems to have graduated from the same school of hype and exaggeration\u2019. <\/span> Photograph: Denis Balibouse\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has all come amid a dustup between Anthropic and the US department of defence in which Anthropic, despite creating the AI tool used by the Pentagon to strike Iran, has managed to come out looking far better than OpenAI, which offered to help the US military do the same thing but with \u2013 maybe \u2013 fewer guardrails.<\/p>\n

Its media lead, Danielle Ghiglieri, has notched the wins on LinkedIn. \u201cI\u2019m endlessly proud to work at Anthropic,\u201d she said of the company\u2019s Time cover, tagging the journalists involved in a post about the \u201cmad dash\u201d to get the story over the line.<\/p>\n

Watching a CBS 60 Minutes segment featuring Amodei \u201cwas one of those pinch-me moments<\/a>,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat made it meaningful wasn\u2019t just the platform. It was seeing the story we wanted to tell actually come through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the New Yorker profile, by the journalist Gideon Lewis-Kraus, she wrote<\/a>: \u201cI would be lying if I said I wasn\u2019t nervous for our first meeting in person \u2026 working with someone of Gideon\u2019s calibre means being pushed to articulate ideas you\u2019re still forming, and being OK with that discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

(\u201cI bet that\u2019s what they all say about you,\u201d said my editor.)<\/p>\n

Other tech PRs have taken notice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are clearly having a moment right now but companies building technology that will change the world deserve equal scrutiny,\u201d said one. \u201cThey accidentally leaked their own source code last week, then this week they claim stewardship over cyber threats with a new powerful model that only they control. Any other big tech firm would be ridiculed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthropic did accidentally release <\/a>part of Claude\u2019s internal source code at the beginning of April. \u201cNo sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

What does this all mean about Anthropic\u2019s undoubtedly powerful Mythos?<\/p>\n

The model\u2019s capacities were not \u201csubstantiated,\u201d said Dr Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute. \u201cReleasing a marketing post with purposely vague language that obscures evidence \u2026 brings into question if they are trying to garner further investment without scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMythos is a real development and Anthropic was right to treat it seriously,\u201d said Jameison O\u2019Reilly, an expert in offensive cybersecurity. But, he said, some of Anthropic\u2019s claims, such as that it found thousands of \u201czero-day vulnerabilities\u201d in major operating systems, were not that significant to real-world cybersecurity considerations.<\/p>\n

A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software or hardware unknown to its developers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have spent over 10 years gaining authorised access to hundreds of organisations \u2013 banks, governments, critical infrastructure, global enterprises,\u201d said O\u2019Reilly. \u201cIn those 10 years, across hundreds of engagements, the number of times we needed a zero-day vulnerability to achieve our objective was vanishingly small.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Protesters in San Francisco called on AI firms to pause development last month, marching to the offices of Anthropic and OpenAI.<\/span> Photograph: Manuel Orbegozo\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other reasons may have contributed to Anthropic\u2019s decision not to release Mythos.<\/p>\n

The company has limited resources, and appears to be struggling to offer enough computing capacity to allow all its subscribers to use its models. It has introduced usage caps<\/a> on the wildly popular Claude. Recently, it said users would have to purchase extra capacity on top of their subscriptions in order to run third-party tools, such as OpenClaw. At this point, it may simply not have the infrastructure to support the release of a hyped-up new creation.<\/p>\n

Like OpenAI, Anthropic is in a race to raise billions of dollars and capture a market \u2013 still ill-defined \u2013 of people who might lean on its chatbots as friends, romantic partners or deeply personalised assistants, and of companies that might use them to replace human employees.<\/p>\n

But differences in these products are marginal and impressionistic, mostly down to hard-to-quantify attributes such as \u201csense of self\u201d and \u201csoul\u201d \u2013 or rather, what passes for these in an AI agent. The battle is for hearts and minds.<\/p>\n

\u201cMythos is a strategic announcement to show that they\u2019re open for business,\u201d said Khlaaf, saying Anthropic\u2019s release limitation prevented independent experts from evaluating the company\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

She suggested we may be \u201cseeing the very same bait and switch playbook that was used by OpenAI, where safety is a PR tool to gain public trust before profits are prioritised\u201d and: \u201cAnthropic publicity has managed to better obscure this switch than its rivals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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