The Model Too Dangerous to Ship Is Coming for Everyone

Six weeks ago, Anthropic opened our first episode by refusing to ship a model called Mythos. This week, it shipped Claude Opus 4.8, called the alignment "near-Mythos," and told the world that Mythos-class models reach every customer in the coming weeks.

So either the model was never that dangerous, or "too dangerous to ship" has a 90-day expiration date. That's the cold open. From there, Oscar and Matt filter the week's AI noise — Opus 4.8's Dynamic Workflows, Anthropic passing OpenAI near a $1T valuation, Cognition's $1B round at $26B, the Nx Console breach, Pope Leo's AI encyclical — debate three real business ideas, and close with two hot takes you won't hear anywhere else.