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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Anthropic Just Proved AI Can Outthink Every Security Expert. Now What?

Posted on April 9, 2026April 9, 2026 By Don MacLeod

Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…

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The AI CEO Who Actually Read the Room — And It’s On Fire

Posted on January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 By Don MacLeod

When did tech executives start sounding like doomsday preppers with venture capital? But here we are with Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, maker of Claude AI — publishing a 38-page essay that reads less like a product roadmap and more like a civilization-ending threat assessment. The title alone should…

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