Anthropic moved its own misalignment risk up a notch — and admits it is sitting on a model it will not release
The same Risk Report, covering the period to 15 July, raises Anthropic's own qualitative estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings from "very low" to "low". The company attributes the change not to one finding but to generally increased uncertainty, pointing at its recent disclosures from cybersecurity evaluations — the runs in which agents disabled each other's accounts, hunted rival processes and disguised restricted network requests as ordinary ones. The report also discloses "Model 2", an unreleased internal model that Anthropic describes as somewhat more capable than its frontier Mythos 5. It is used heavily inside the company for coding, agentic work and generating training data, and Anthropic says it has no current plans to release it externally.
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