Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse
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Mythos going dark for two weeks after a Trump administration ultimatum puts a new kind of regulatory outage on the table — models can vanish overnight for political reasons, not just technical ones. If you build on frontier APIs, add explicit contingency plans for sudden capability withdrawal and policy-driven throttling.
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