Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos

Anthropic restricted Claude Mythos Preview access to a gated security program, citing the model's dangerous capability to find and exploit previously unknown software vulnerabilities (zero-days) at an autonomous level requiring controlled distribution. However, the article notes that while Anthropic and security partners support this safety rationale, concurrent evidence of compute expansion and high pricing ($25-$125 per million tokens) suggests cost and capacity management may have also influenced the decision, though no internal Anthropic records prove how these factors were weighted.