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After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/
67•gbourne1•1h ago

Comments

2ndorderthought•1h ago
"my model is the most dangerous"

"No mine is the most dangerous"

"Nuh uh mine is"

"Mine could kill everyone!"

"Mine could do it faster!"

"Prove it!!!"

This is where we are

davidgrenier•1h ago
Yeah I guess two companies who would otherwise be considered going for bankruptcy have models too expensive to run. As they don't see themselves making money any time soon, they have to turn every future model into a weird fascination.
cyanydeez•2m ago
think about it in the form of who can pay. theyre at b2b. and swiftly moving to government.
vasco•1h ago
Would AGI start by hacking competing labs to hamper their progress?
Avicebron•1h ago
You'll have to define what you mean by AGI
fodkodrasz•1h ago
AGI: Automatically Generating Income
gordonhart•4m ago
This is a surprisingly concrete and defensible definition of AGI.
brikym•1h ago
It's like that phone call in The Big Short where Goldman suddenly change their mind once they hold a position.
concinds•1h ago
These models demonstrably have good vulnerability research capabilities.

I'm sure their marketing department is ecstatic but you guys are far more hype-based than what you're calling out.

ZyanWu•1h ago
> demonstrably

I'm not entirely up to date on each week's LLM hype train/scandal but last I heard there was no public access to it or public-trusted 3rd parties that can review model's capabilities

2ndorderthought•32m ago
You are up to date. Mythos had unauthorized access because of poor security but that's it as far as I know. Not exactly a good sign for something being advertised as a weapon...
SpicyLemonZest•4m ago
It’s easy to end up with no public-trusted third parties if we arbitrarily distrust third parties who say the capabilities match what’s promised. Mozilla for example says it found hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities, and I think it’s pretty unlikely they’re lying to cover Anthropic’s back.
authnopuz•5m ago
Good but not necessarily better that was is already pay-as-you-go available today. ref. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-veri...

This AISLE benchmark is interesting in this matter: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag...

And the recently discovered Copy Fail by Xint code is another proof that the gating is overblown: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

jwr•1h ago
I have no idea why people still even attempt to believe anything that comes out of Altman's mouth. Do we not learn from the past?
apples_oranges•1h ago
Idk about Altman, I missed that he’s a bad guy now apparently, but people also still listen to certain politicians that routinely lie every day and don’t even bother to make the lies fit the other ones they said before, so..
xandrius•1h ago
You missed literally every single post/article about the guy?
giwook•13m ago
More likely that confirmation bias acted as a filter.
GuB-42•53m ago
Altman played no small part in the current price of RAM. He told everyone he would buy 40% of all the RAM, causing shortages and a huge increase in price, just to take it back a few months later. So yeah, he is a bad guy now.

People don't become bad guys just because they lie. The consequences of their actions (and their lies) matter more. Take Elon Musk for instance, he has always been a recognized liar, even when he was a good guy. What changed? Before, he was famous for making the electric car people actually wanted to drive, and cool rockets. Then came the politics: supporting the party most of his fans disliked, being responsible for many government job losses, in particular in the field of environmental preservation (ironic for a supporter of "green" energy), etc...

giwook•14m ago
That's far from the only reason why he's "a bad guy" now.
michelb•51m ago
Has there been a single positive post about Altman?
giwook•14m ago
I wonder what that says about Altman.
feverzsj•1h ago
With subsidy gone, token price goes sky high. The biggest shit show is about to happen.
xandrius•1h ago
Then we switch to open LLMs which are not backed by greedy VCs and headed by evil white dudes.
jurgenburgen•1h ago
That’s great but who will pay for all the data center debt?
robohoe•59m ago
The taxpayers and paying customers that’s who!
cmiles8•58m ago
The debt goes bad and those that issued the debt absorb losses. Many that went in deep lose their shirts.

Thats how this stuff works, although there’s a whole generation that’s not seen the back side of a bubble and seems to think there’s no such thing as a downside.

throwaway132448•34m ago
2007 called they want their free-market philosophy back.
giwook•12m ago
Just their shirts?

I'd rather lose my pants if I had to lose anything, so then I'd still be presentable for Zoom calls.

2ndorderthought•52m ago
Let them fail before it gets even worse is my take. The future is small but capable local models.
pluc•1h ago
My thinking is that if there would be more money in releasing Mythos and Cyber than there is in just scary unverifiable (or verified using very favorable context - Mythos) propaganda, they would. These aren't people that go for second best or care about the state of the world.
xandrius•1h ago
Make it sound "scary good", tell everyone and their mom, charge gullible companies $$$$$ for its premium access and then move on.
lossolo•55m ago
And government contracts.
cmiles8•1h ago
It’s a marketing move, pure and simple.

Put up velvet ropes outside… leak out rumors about the horrors inside. Whether it’s LLMs or carnies with tents full of “freaks” it’s the same playbook.

Watching OpenAI tumble from the clear market leader into “hey guys us too!” territory has been insightful.

Xmd5a•59m ago
>Me: ok but you did not answer my question: is it possible to engineer paranoia ?

>ChatGPT: This content was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk. If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access Cyber program.

le-mark•41m ago
It’s clear at this point local models are sufficient so what gives? These big providers don’t have a leg to stand on. Their only path to relevance is super ai that local models can’t run. So the “we have it but you can’t use it” is either true or a con. I bet it’s a con.

I personally am ready to buy the drop when this bubble pops.

bryancoxwell•19m ago
I’m not up to date on local models, but is that clear?
le-mark•6m ago
They are 6-12 months behind the “frontier” models. This mean anthropic, openai, and google don’t have a moat, they’re on a treadmill running to stay ahead. Treadmills don’t justify their valuation.
literalAardvark•4m ago
Gemma4:e4b is crazy good and quite usable on 10 years old midrange hardware.

Not sure about the security capabilities and haven't tested it all that well, as I usually just use hosted models, but I do find myself using it and it's been quite successful for parsing unstructured data, writing small focused scripts and translations.

The fact that I retain control of the data itself makes it incredibly useful, as I work in an environment where I can't just paste internal stuff into Codex.

But since it's run locally on a toaster testing it is out of scope for me. It takes a fairly long time to do anything.

mnmnmn•40m ago
OpenAI is such trash. Worked with them on a project, they blew off meetings, lied to us, etc
sexylinux•16m ago
Is this a model that will finally work without creating errors?

Your Website Is Not for You

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Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

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Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

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Show HN: Site Mogging

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How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/
626•the-mitr•19h ago•210 comments

Grok 4.3

https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3
145•simianwords•3h ago•192 comments

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/
93•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•58 comments

For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/10
530•ori_b•19h ago•422 comments

Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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OpenWarp

https://openwarp.zerx.dev
115•zero-lab•10h ago•97 comments

Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously
376•ilamont•1d ago•196 comments

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/
408•j12y•20h ago•147 comments

If I could make my own GitHub

https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/
27•matricaria•22h ago•62 comments

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

https://idlemachines.co.uk/essays/softmax
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The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)

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37•tzury•2h ago•5 comments

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-ac...
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Maladaptive Frugality

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124•herbertl•2d ago•97 comments

A beginner's guide to Sourcehut (2025)

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I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers

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91•graiz•2d ago•84 comments

I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

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291•elvis70•19h ago•67 comments

Auto Polo

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Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?

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645•Cider9986•16h ago•271 comments

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

https://lovable.dev/blog/hunting-networking-bugs-in-kubernetes
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Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

https://github.com/intel/auto-round
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Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac

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334•vok•3d ago•144 comments