Another lever to force EU cooperation with Trump?

https://thenextweb.com/news/eurogroup-mythos-access-cyber-defense-europe

Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.

… Bloomberg confirmed that euro-area finance ministers had convened to discuss Anthropic’s Mythos AI model and what to do about the fact that no European government currently has access to it. The model, unveiled by Anthropic on 7 April, can identify and, in principle, exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser.

The White House has spent the last several weeks blocking Anthropic’s proposal to expand access to roughly 70 additional organisations.

Useful background?

https://www.bespacific.com/how-llms-actually-work/

How LLMs Actually Work

“A complete walkthrough of how large language models like ChatGPT are buil t — from raw internet text to a conversational assistant. Based on Andrej Karpathy’s technical deep dive. Built from Andrej Karpathy’s “Intro to Large Language Models”  lecture — all facts, figures, and framings traced back to that source. Interactive visualizations built with AI assistance. The most important takeaway: every word generated is a probabilistic sample — a biased coin flip, at 100K-way scale, billions of times. This was posted to Hacker News  and drew heated debate about it being LLM-generated. That’s a fair observation — the implementation was AI-assisted. But the content isn’t the AI’s: every claim, figure, and framing in this guide comes directly from Karpathy’s lecture, not from a model hallucinating about LLMs.”

• HN discussion  · GitHub  · Full lecture transcript  · HN update note  · LLM council report  · v1 (original)  · Part 2: How to Use LLMs →

Indications of poor design? (Perhaps it was impossible from the start.)

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

… The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes made under the OSA, many children saw age verification as an easy-to-bypass hurdle rather than something that kept them genuinely safe.

A full 46 percent of children even said that age checks were easy to bypass, while just 17 percent said that they were difficult to fool. The methods kids use to fool age gates vary, but most are pretty simple: There's the classic use of a video game character to fool video selfie systems, while in other instances, children reported just entering a fake birthday or using someone else's ID card when that was required.

The report even cites cases of children drawing a mustache on their faces to fool age detection filters. Seriously.