Access to Frontier AI Will Soon Be Limited by Economic and Security Constraints — 220 Points on HN

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A widely-discussed essay argues frontier AI access is shifting from commercially-driven to security-constrained distribution. Context: Anthropic's Mythos completed a 32-step simulated cyberattack in 6/10 attempts per UK AISI testing, while researchers showed similar techniques are reproducible on cheap open-weight models. The assumption that hostile actors lag frontier capabilities by months is no longer safe. EU enforcement powers begin August 2026, creating jurisdictional access disputes over models like Mythos that Anthropic refuses to release publicly.