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when the DoW / anthropic / OpenAI standoff was going down, how much did the parties know about claude mythos / glasswing? the standoff seemed so weird on a few levels: 1) how could this simple agreement/communication about "all legal use" or "domestic surveillance" or whatever result in such staggering consequences (DoW threatening to destroy anthropic)? 2) why the sudden extreme, public blowup? 3) why would the DoW resort to such extreme tactics (rather than, as was pointed out repeatedly, just having normal buisness negotiations and changing contractors)?
instead, if it was something like "you said you have a model that can exploit every OS. we need it" and anthropic said "it's not ready / not safe / not ethical"... that explains a whole lot. but it would also imply that OpenAI said to DoW "we also have a model that's good enough at X, Y, and Z".
though for what this explains, it also seems unlikely that one of the most high-pressure, heavily scrutinized news events recently didn't have anyone leaking about this for a whole month. and weird things about the drama are also explained by regular human personalities, stupidity and luck.