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PublishedApril 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
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This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.
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