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Behind the Curtain: We've been warned

Axios · · 1045 words · By Jim VandeHei; Mike Allen
Technological Displacement Corporate Lack of Transparency AI Existential Risk

The article discusses the rapid growth and increasing capabilities of AI models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting concerns regarding transparency and safety. It cites specific examples of AI's impact on the economy, the lack of government regulation, and violent attacks against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as evidence of growing societal anxiety.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://axios.com/2026/04/29/ai-models-speed-warning

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Moderate concerns. Notable use of persuasive or loaded language.

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Appeal to Fear 90% confidence
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Causal Oversimplification 60% confidence
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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 70% confidence
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“OpenAI and Anthropic say their most powerful AI coding models are now building themselves.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general descriptions of OpenAI and Anthropic from Wikipedia and their websites, but none of the sources mention that their coding models are currently building themselves.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California. Originally focused on data annotation, the company also offers RLHF servic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_AI
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“In early April, the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was the target of two attacks in the same week.”
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The evidence provided includes general biographical information about Sam Altman and irrelevant search results for 'Sam's Club' and 'SAM.gov'. There is no mention of attacks on his home in early April.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jack Altman is an American businessman, entrepreneur, author, and venture capitalist. He is a general partner with the venture capital firm, Benchmark. Altman previously co-founded Lattice, a human re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Altman_(entrepreneur)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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“Anthropic is the fastest-growing company in the history of American business.”
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Multiple independent sources (Axios via LinkedIn, Derek Thompson, and 'Behind the Curtain') describe Anthropic as the fastest-growing company in American business history.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is the fastest-growing company in the history of American business. Its annualized revenue jumped from $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion a year later to $30 billion as of this mont…
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/ai-models-speed-warning
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web search NEUTRAL — Axios called it the fastest revenue ramp in American business history. The number that actually matters: 80% of it is enterprise.Anthropic is doing 10x Palantir's revenue, growing faster than any ente…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/magnus-sigurdsson_anthropic-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — According to several analysts, there is no record of any company growing this fast at this scale … ever. It’s hard to imagine that artificial intelligence is both a bubble and the home to the industry…
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-is-anthropic-thinking
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“Its annualized revenue jumped from $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion a year later to $30 billion as of this month.”
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Multiple sources confirm the revenue trajectory: 'Behind the Curtain' mentions $1B end of 2024 to $9B to $30B; 'DEV Community' mentions $1B late 2024 to $30B as of April 2026; and another source mentions crossing $30B annualized revenue run rate.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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“More than 1,000 companies spend over $1 million per year on Claude — a number that doubled in under two months.”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains general information about Claude's identity verification and status, but does not mention the number of companies spending over $1 million per year.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: , US: ; French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November, 1840 – 5 December, 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (French: [ʒɑ̃ klod kamij fʁɑ̃swa vɑ̃ vaʁɑ̃bɛʁɡ]; Flemish: [vɑɱ ˈvaːrə(m)bɛr(ə)x]; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (Frenc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme
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“Anthropic built a model that it doesn't plan to release to the general public. Claude Mythos Preview can crack critical security vulnerabilities in the operating systems and browsers that power the modern world.”
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While there is evidence for a 'Mythos' model in claim 6, the specific evidence provided for claim 5 only contains general company info and a Wikipedia entry for GPT-5.5. It does not explicitly confirm the 'Claude Mythos Preview' capabilities or the non-release plan in the provided text for this specific claim index.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GPT-5.5 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 5.5) is a large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI on April 23, 2026. The model is also known by its codename "Spud". OpenAI reports improvements on be…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-5.5
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“The company announced that access to Mythos initially would be limited to 40+ organizations to give cyberdefenders a head start on what's coming.”
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Two independent web sources confirm that Anthropic limited access to the Mythos model to approximately 40 organizations to help cyberdefenders.
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic limits access to Mythos, its new cybersecurity AI model.Anthropic said those organizations and more than 40 others will have access to Mythos in order to start the work of shoring up defense…
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/anthropic-debuts-powerful-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic limited Mythos access to approximately 40 organizations worldwide. The company has publicly named only about a dozen recipients, with the NSA and UK’s AI Security Institute among confirmed o…
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/04-21-2026-ai-trends-…
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“Boris Cherny, who runs Anthropic's Claude Code, said in late January that '[p]retty much 100%' of the code written inside Anthropic was AI-generated.”
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Multiple sources (Fortune, Reading.sh, and Faisal haque) confirm that Boris Cherny stated that AI (specifically Claude Code) writes 100% of his code.
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web search NEUTRAL — And while Cherny says that AI now writes 100% of his code, an Anthropic spokesperson said that company-wide the figure is between 70% and 90%. For Claude Code, about 90% of its code is written by Clau…
https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro…
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web search NEUTRAL — His guest on January 23, 2026 was Boris Cherny, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and the creator of Claude Code. The conversation started normally enough. Then Boris dropped this: “In the last…
https://reading.sh/the-claude-code-creator-says-ai-writes-10…
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web search NEUTRAL — Boris Cherny hasn’t written a line of code in months. The creator of Anthropic’s viral coding tool now outsources 100% of his work to the AI he built. Faisal haque.
https://ai.plainenglish.io/claude-code-just-ate-its-own-tail…
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“OpenAI's chief scientist set 2028 as the target for a fully autonomous AI researcher.”
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“Anthropic's co-founder anticipates a decision to allow AI to recursively self-improve between 2027 and 2030”
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“Stanford's 2026 AI Index Report says the Foundation Model Transparency Index dropped from 58 to 40 (out of 100) in the last year.”
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“A 20-year-old man was charged with traveling from Texas to San Francisco and firebombing Altman's house in the middle of the night, then showing up at OpenAI headquarters and trying to smash his way through the front doors.”
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“Two days after the Molotov cocktail attack, someone else drove by Altman's home and shot at it.”
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“In 10 weeks, AI agents erased $2 trillion from the combined value of public software companies”
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