Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic's new Mythos preview 2) Is Mythos marketing or a legit breakthrough? 3) The Mythos sandwich guy story 4) OpenAI and Anthropic's brewing 1st party vs. API conflict of interest 5) The Meta-Harness 6) Violence against AI on the rise 7) Maine is going to pass a data center moratorium 8) Was Medvi really a $1.8 billion two person startup? 9) Tokenmaxxing is all the rage --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Anthropics' big new mythos model is here. Is it real or is it marketing?
0:04.0	Violence breaks out against AI, and engineers at Meta and elsewhere are competing for who can burn the most tokens.
0:11.0	That's coming up on a Big Technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
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0:44.9	with some of the most influential voices in the space and will be bringing those conversations
0:49.5	back to you here on Big Technology. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our
0:57.6	traditional cool-headed and nuanced format. Oh, we have a great show for you today. We're
1:01.5	going to talk about whether Mythos, the new model from Anthropic is Real or marketing or maybe
1:05.5	some combination of both. We're going to talk about this new surge of violence that's breaking
1:09.6	out against AI and why you should probably be taken more seriously. We going to talk about this new surge of violence that's breaking out against AI and
1:10.8	why you should probably be taken more seriously. We'll also talk about this now infamous 1.8 billion
1:17.1	one or two person startup called Medvi and whether that heralds a new era or is just a bigger
1:23.1	scam than we're used to and we're also going to talk about token maxing, which is the act of basically burning as many AI tokens as you possibly can, and maybe that's good or bad. I don't know. We'll figure it out at the end. Joining us, as always, is Ranjan Roy of Margins. Ron John, welcome back. Good to see you. I'm happy to be back. And, yeah, Mythos is here. What a week to come back.
1:45.3	Mythos is here.
1:46.2	Yeah, mythos is here.
1:47.1	The people have clamored for Ron John's return.
1:50.0	He's made his return at the perfect week.
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