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…

@ShakeelHashim Or rather maybe they don't want to be fearmongerers who are alarmist about small things.

@ShakeelHashim A tale as old as time