Folks, things are happening.
And you know me, I can't keep it to myself.
Something happened last week that should've been front-page news everywhere. It wasn't.
Anthropic, one of the most respected AI labs on the planet, built their most powerful model yet. Then they looked at what it could do and made a decision nobody in this industry has ever made before.
They refused to release it.
Not because it failed. Because it worked.
The model is called Claude Mythos Preview. In just a few weeks of internal testing, it identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in software, many of them critical. Some of those flaws had been sitting undetected inside the systems we all depend on for over two decades. Banks. Hospitals. Power grids. Every major operating system and web browser. Mythos found the holes nobody else could find, faster than any human team could ever hope to.
So Anthropic did something extraordinary. They launched Project Glasswing, pulling together 12 partner organizations and giving roughly 40 total companies access to the model: Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Google (GOOGL), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Cisco, CrowdStrike, and more. They committed up to $100 million in compute credits. They briefed CISA and federal agencies. And they locked Mythos behind closed doors, available only for defensive cybersecurity work.
Logan Graham, who leads Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, called it "the starting point for what we think will be an industry change point." Their Chief Science Officer, Jared Kaplan, said the goal is to give good actors a head start.
A head start.
Let that phrase sit with you for a second. The world's leading AI safety company just told us, in plain language, that offense is winning. That the gap between what AI can do and what we can safely handle isn't closing. It's widening. Event Horizon type stuff.
Here's what makes this even more serious: every frontier AI lab is developing models in lockstep. OpenAI, xAI, Google, and a fleet of open-source Chinese labs are all racing toward the same capability threshold Mythos just crossed. The question isn't whether they'll get there. They will. The question is whether they'll hold back the way Anthropic did.
Or whether they'll publish, grab the market advantage, and deal with the fallout later.
The Mythos moment isn't a story about one AI model. It's a signal flare. We've crossed a threshold where capability is outrunning our ability to manage it. Not in theory. In practice. Right now. This week.
I've been writing about the Event Horizon for months. The point where AI stops being a tool and starts being a force. The point where the pace of change moves faster than institutions, regulations, or human intuition can adapt.
We're past it.
But here's what I didn't expect: the public's response to all of this is doing something strange. There's a pattern in how people accept AI in some places and violently reject it in others. Once you see that pattern, it tells you exactly where this acceleration is heading, and where the real money flows as it gets there.
That's what we're digging into next.
Part 2 drops on the weekend. Don't miss it.
Here for a good time AND a long time,
Hans