‘Too powerful for the public’: Inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war
THE SO WHAT
'We built something too powerful to release' is now a public narrative — safety posture and model gating are becoming front-stage competitive levers, not back-office governance. If you ship advanced models, your release strategy and comms around withheld capabilities are now part of your product surface and your regulatory relationship.
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