Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order

Ah, the great Mythos lockdown: the US government waves its big stick, orders Anthropic to shut down versions of its fancy new model, and — oops — the banks still have the preview version. How delightfully predictable. Corporate testers including, presumably, the very institutions that funded the whole circus just carried on with their privileged access while the rest of us get to admire the regulatory theatre from afar. It's the democratisation of AI everyone was promised, just filtered through a 'do as we say, not as the banks do' lens.

What a masterclass in enforcement. The government order was presumably drafted with all the ironclad language of a sternly worded letter, and Anthropic, ever the obedient lab, probably nodded along while slipping the early testers a cheeky 'don't worry, you're special' nod. This isn't a loophole; it's a feature of a system where the enforcer is outgunned by the very ecosystem it pretends to police. Reminds one of the Rackspace layoff 'pivot to AI' we chronicled — all announcement, no substance.

So the next time someone tells you AI regulation is getting serious, remember this: the government says stop, but the banks still click. Mythos is out there, in the wild, being tested by the very entities that need no permission. But hey, at least the public-facing versions are gone — that'll show 'em. Unless, of course, the next breakthrough emerges from a bank's secret preview account, and then we can all pretend we didn't see this coming. Cheers.