AI Hype

When an AI company tells the world it built something too dangerous to release, you’d expect fear. What Anthropic got instead was a bizarre cocktail of government panic, industry skepticism, media frenzy, and — let’s be honest — some of the best PR the AI industry has ever produced. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview isn’t available to you. It’s not available to me. It’s available to roughly 11 organizations — Google, Microsoft, AWS, JPMorganChase, Nvidia, and a handful of others — through something called “Project Glasswing.” The reason? Anthropic claims Mythos can autonomously discover vulnerabilities in virtually any operating system, browser, or software product, then build working exploits. ...

Four words from the most powerful man in AI just broke the internet: “We’ve achieved AGI.” Jensen Huang — CEO of NVIDIA, the $4 trillion company whose GPUs power essentially every AI system on the planet — sat down with Lex Fridman this week and casually dropped what should be the most consequential claim in the history of technology. Artificial general intelligence, the holy grail researchers have chased for decades, is apparently already here. ...