Whether this is true or not no longer matters. If it's not then any day soon it will be. We're descending into bedlam.
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Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta on X
We are so cooked.
Anthropic just accidentally leaked its most powerful AI model because someone forgot to lock a blog CMS. Theyβre warning it could βoutpace the efforts of defendersβ in cybersecurity.
Do you understand what just happened??
Close to 3,000 unpublished files were sitting in a publicly accessible data store.. Draft blog posts, PDFs, details of a secret CEO retreat at an 18th-century English manor. Anyone could find them. Anthropicβs response? βHuman error.β
The leaked documents describe a new model tier above Opus. Dramatically better than anything that exists.
Their own internal draft says itβs βfar ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities.β Anthropic confirmed itβs real. They called it βa step change.β
They are terrified of their own model.
CrowdStrike dropped 7%. Palo Alto Networks fell 6%. Cybersecurity ETF down 6% in a single session, now 20%+ on the year. Bitcoin slid from $70K to $66K overnight. $20 billion in market cap vaporized over a draft blog post about something that hasnβt even shipped yet.
A $380 billion company with $20+ billion in revenue is telling you, in their own leaked words, that the thing they built will break the internetβs defenses faster than anyone can patch them.
They wrote that down. In a blog draft. Then left the blog draft unlocked on the internet.
Every script kiddie with API access is about to become a state-level threat actor.. Every firewall vendor is about to become a legacy vendor.. Every βwe take security seriouslyβ banner on every SaaS login page is about to age like milk.
Sleep well tonight.
John Quiggin
