Anthropic played the media like a fiddle. From “untold catastrophe” to “check our latest model”, in two months and a day 🙄 (cc @tomfriedman…

Anthropic played the media like a fiddle. From “untold catastrophe” to “check our latest model”, in two months and a day 🙄 (cc @tomfriedman) This is the scary phase of AI — a model deemed so powerful that its full release into the wild could unleash untold catastrophe. 🚨Based on our conversations with government and private-sector officials briefed on Mythos, this isn't hyperbole. It's reality. https://www.axios.com/…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-09