Amodei says Anthropic’s safety delay may have cost it an AI lead

Anthropic first released Mythos-class models in February 2026 , but CEO Dario Amodei said it delayed broader access until June to build stronger cybersecurity safeguards. Amodei laid out that reasoning Tuesday in a lengthy post on X, written in response to criticism from Nathan Calvin and defending the company’s approach to AI safety. He conceded the decision may have cost Anthropic a competitive edge. Releasing the models sooner, he argues, would have given organizations less time to prepare their infrastructure for increasingly capable AI-powered cyberattacks. “We likely sacrificed a...

Source: The New Stack

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