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Alleged Anthropic Mythos-class model checkpoint appears on Hugging Face

An alleged Anthropic Mythos-class model checkpoint surfaced on Hugging Face in a repository named 'numbat' under the username 'burner22', according to a Hacker News thread cited by the Prefactor AI pipeline. The report frames the posting as either a data breach or an unauthorized model release, though no confirmation from Anthropic or Hugging Face is included.

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Alleged Anthropic Mythos-class model checkpoint appears on Hugging Face
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An alleged Anthropic Mythos-class model checkpoint appeared on Hugging Face under username 'burner22' in a repository named 'numbat', according to a Hacker News thread. The leak suggests either a data breach or unauthorized model release.

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- Social[HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326727)
- Official[Read article](https://huggingface.co/burner22/numbat)

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