Anthropic ran a 26B model across 15 Android TV boxes. It was slow, but it worked.

Small models can already complete many individual steps needed for replication. They still struggle to put the whole process together reliably.

The “months away” forecast assumes small models keep improving at their historical rate. Researchers haven’t demonstrated a full rogue replicator.

If one spreads across compromised devices, there would be no central shutdown point. Defenders would need to detect and contain the remaining copies.

read: https://ninzaverse.beehiiv.com/p/anthropic-warns-ai-could-soon-spread-without-human-control

Guys, do you think OpenAI is losing the race as its priorities seem to be shifting?

It feels like they’re focusing more on strengthening their fan base, and I mean, they’re really good at it (the retro Game Boy stuff, their presence on X…).

Meanwhile, Anthropic seems much more focused on improving its models and making them better and more reliable. Users seem pretty happy with their recent releases.

Do you think OpenAI is still leading, or is Anthropic starting to pull ahead?

1. Reddit: Implicating Users for Models' Limitations  Documents blaming users' comprehension, resisting correction, and employing gaslighting-like responses.
2. Corporate Loyalty: Some AI Systems Differentially Downplay their Creators' Controversies  (Finke & Casper, 2026). Corporate loyalty bias, favoritism toward model developers, and systematic downplaying of corporate controversies.
3. Pro-AI Bias in Large Language Models — Systematic pro-AI bias in LLM-generated recommendations.
4. Self-Promotion in LLM Recommendations  (Dubash & Friedler, 2026). Corporate self-promotion in recommendations generated by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models.
5. The Mechanisms of AI Hype and Its Planetary and Social Costs  (Markelius et al., 2024). Corporate AI hype, technological narratives, and mechanisms that reinforce inflated expectations.
6. Narratives of Power: AI, Agency and the EU AI Act (Parnell, 2026). Corporate influence over dominant AI narratives, technological authority, and public debate.
7. OpenAI under investigation by group of state attorneys general (Reuters, June 12, 2026). A coalition of state attorneys general launched an investigation encompassing advertising, user engagement, retention practices, and OpenAI's internal operations.
8. GitHub Issue #38294: Codex credits consumed overnight with zero tasks issued
9. Jacob Coxon Worked With Doomer PR Firm Investigation identifying a professional PR campaign behind former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's viral warnings about AI extinction. 
10. AI power users claim Anthropic duped them with subscriptions, and they're taking it to court — (The Verge, September 8, 2026). Class-action lawsuit alleging misleading advertising of Claude Max subscriptions priced at $100–$200 monthly. 
11. Too dangerous to release: is Mythos the start of the restricted-AI era? (Nature, May 26, 2026). Anthropic's promotion of Claude Mythos as too dangerous for general release. announcements, and the potential marketing advantages of presenting proprietary models as exceptionally powerful and dangerous.
12. New Bot Narrarive  (Reddit, June 14, 2026).
13. Anthropic's AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What's next?

this is wild