The week AI went from gated to global

How Anthropic’s Mythos reversal — announced three days after the Pope called for AI to be disarmed — changed the threat model for every business on a three-to-five-year AI roadmap

In the same five business days, Pope Leo XIV published a 42,000-word encyclical calling for AI to be “disarmed” and warned against the concentration of AI power in a handful of corporations — and Anthropic, co-founded by the man standing alongside the Pope at the Vatican, reversed course on its most dangerous model, raised the largest private AI funding round in history, and launched a new flagship. This episode unpacks what the Mythos reversal means for your security team, why the two leading labs are diverging on access decisions rather than converging on a shared standard, and the four questions to bring to your next planning session. 

This weeks highlights: 

  • Pope Leo XIV published a 42,000-word encyclical warning AI must be “disarmed” — presenting it at the Vatican alongside an Anthropic co-founder three days before Anthropic reversed course on its most dangerous model.
  • Anthropic’s Mythos-class cybersecurity AI — deemed too dangerous to release seven weeks ago and flagged by the US Treasury — is now coming to all customers. Anthropic’s own words: no company has yet developed safeguards strong enough to prevent misuse.
  • Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B valuation — the largest private AI funding round in history, making it the most valuable AI startup in the world.
  • OpenAI and Anthropic moved in opposite directions on frontier access this week — one loosening, one tightening — confirming there is no shared safety standard between the two leading labs.
  • OpenAI’s confidential IPO filing was reported publicly, targeting Q4. Within six months, one leading AI vendor becomes a public company with audited financials while the other stays the most capitalized private AI lab in the world. 

 

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