Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

Sam Altman accused Anthropic of using "fear-based marketing" for its newly announced Mythos cybersecurity model, claiming the company exaggerates the model's danger to maintain exclusive access and justify premium pricing. Altman framed this as a strategy to keep AI in the hands of a select elite, comparing it to selling "bomb shelters" for massive sums. The article contextualizes this within broader AI industry patterns of leveraging doomsday narratives.