Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned Mythos posed a national security threat. Washington just responded.
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A lab CEO publicly calling his own model a national security threat — and then watching it get restricted — sets a precedent for how seriously frontier warnings will be treated. For operators, the message is clear: the most capable models may be intermittently or permanently gated by policy, so build architectures that can degrade gracefully across capability tiers.
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