The Anthropic Mythos release does not appear near the top of the homepage on any major news site today. The NYT is closest, but it's still pretty far down. The Guardian thinks a Vogue cover with Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep is more important. The Washington Post is prioritizing yet another "we tried to get into Berghain" story. The media is not adequately covering the insane moment we are in.

to add some context: all these outlets have excellent tech journalists many of whom have covered the news. the problem is the *editors* of these outlets don't understand its importance, and are doing a bad job of conveying what actually matters to their audience.

and lest we be accused of hypocrisy — here's @cogcelia's excellent piece on some of the weirder and wilder bits of the system card. transformernews.ai/p/claude-mytho…

Credit to @tomfriedman for focusing on it in his op-ed. Also note that it's Anthropic's Agent-3 from AI 2027 - being used internally only for productivity (albeit publicly disclosed and limited external access for cyber defense). From the system card: "We surveyed technical staff on the productivity uplift they experience from Claude Mythos Preview relative to zero AI assistance. The distribution is wide and the geometric mean is on the order of 4×... We estimate that reaching 2× on overall progress via this channel would require uplift roughly an order of magnitude larger than what we observe"