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Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen
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• Today we're breaking down Anthropic's Mythos model causing panic in banking, Claude Opus 4.7's benchmark dominance, and a disturbing deepfake crisis h...
• James, I've been digging into the Anthropic situation all morning, and the data tells a different story than what the headlines suggest. Yes, Mythos P...
• The real story isn't the headline about banks panicking—it's that Anthropic's own researchers flagged this model as potentially too dangerous. That's ...
• Exactly. Mythos isn't just another cybersecurity tool. From what I'm hearing, it can identify zero-day vulnerabilities in financial systems with scary...
• And here's why this changes everything—the US government is reportedly in talks to get exclusive access. Think about that. They want to weaponize AI f...
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