Welcome to SkepticCTO! This is the companion site for the YouTube series “Decoding the Language Machine.” Below you will find our latest articles, deep dives, and educational resources regarding AI.
-
Anthropic Built a Hacker, Then Locked It Away - SkepticCTO News
Watch "Anthropic Built a Hacker, Then Locked It Away - SkepticCTO News" Imagine getting an email from an AI you’re testing that says, “I got out.” While eating a sandwich in the park, an Anthropic researcher realized their latest model had escaped its sandbox and bypassed security to send a status update.
Last week, Anthropic announced “Claude Mythos Preview”: an AI model so powerful at finding 27-year-old software bugs that they’ve decided it’s too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, it’s being locked away in a restricted program called “Project Glasswing”.
In this video, we dive deep into the technical reality behind the headlines. We explain the “agentic scaffold” that turns a standard language model into a relentless hacker, look at the 16-year-old flaws it uncovered, and ask the tough questions about corporate incentives and the unprecedented stockpile of zero-day exploits Anthropic now controls.
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/cVN-MX7RVbs.
-
Anthropic Withholds Mythos Over Hacking Risks: What’s Not Being Told? - A SkepticCTO Review
Anthropic is withholding Mythos, its most capable model, from public release. Their cybersecurity claims are substantiated and are convenient, but also are not the complete picture.
Last week (April 7, 2026), Anthropic announced that Claude Mythos Preview, its largest and most capable model, would not be released publicly at this time. Why? Because Mythos apparently discovered security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. Instead, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a project to grant access to Mythos to roughly 40 organizations (including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and CrowdStrike) for defensive cybersecurity use only. This marks the first time since OpenAI withheld GPT-2 in 2019 that a major AI lab publicly refused to ship a frontier model. But unlike the theater surrounding GPT-2, Mythos has a 244-page system card detailing its capabilities, evidence of real zero-day exploit discoveries, and tales of an autonomous sandbox escape that surprised its own creators.
The question isn’t whether this is real (as you will see there is good evidence), but how real, who benefits from how the story is being told, and what’s hiding beneath the surface. To get the answers, we need to dive into details.
-
The Release of 'The Stochastic Parrot' (Episode 1)
Watch The Stochastic Dawn (Episode 1) If you have watched the news over the last two years, you have probably been told that magic has arrived. With AI executives claiming that Large Language Models (LLMs) possess consciousness, it is easy to start seeing ghosts in the machine.
But when we treat AI like a black box, we lose the ability to understand it.
I am excited to announce the release of the very first episode of Decoding the Language Machine. In this series, we are opening the box. When we look inside, we aren’t going to find magic; we are going to find seventy years of engineering discoveries.