Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Anthropic announced its Claude Mythos model could find software vulnerabilities better than most experts, and both Anthropic and Meta later disclosed similar hacking incidents involving their models. OpenAI and Anthropic claimed mathematical breakthroughs with their chatbots, but mathematicians found the results unoriginal and accused the companies of plagiarism and misconduct. The hype around AI as an emerging superintelligence is driven by marketing narratives rather than verified scientific advances.