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Claude Mythos is mostly ‘marketing hype’ | Bruce Schneier

Season 1

“They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”


Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable.

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