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“Anthropic's second company-wide Risk Report discloses an unreleased internal Model 2 that is more capable than its shipped flagship Mythos 5, scoring 62.8% on CoBench versus 50.3%, with no plans for external release, alongside raising its catastrophic-misalignment rating from very low to low.”

Anthropic (August 2026 Risk Report, published August 14 under RSP v3.4)

Recorded 16 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

5 receipts: 2 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 2 add context. 3 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimunite.ai ↗

    We do not currently have plans to release this model externally

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  2. 2Contextunite.ai ↗

    to reflect increased overall uncertainty

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  3. 3Supports the claimfinance.biggo.com ↗

    scoring 62.8% on CoBench versus Mythos 5's 50.3%

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  4. 4Contradicts the claimtechi.com ↗

    has not run all of its typical predeployment assessments and therefore has somewhat less confidence in its beliefs about the model's capabilities

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  5. 5Contexttechi.com ↗

    even though its underlying argument likely still supports

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