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Morning Brief  ·  Sunday

March 29, 2026

Top signals in AI, education, and the future of work.

01

Anthropic Leaks Its Next Model — "Mythos"

Anthropic left details of an unreleased AI model named **"Mythos"** exposed in an unsecured CMS database — along with internal images, PDFs, and details of a private CEO event. A Cambridge cybersecurity researcher found ~3,000 unpublished assets publicly accessible. The company secured the data after Fortune reported it. The leak describes "a step change in capabilities." Classic "don't ask, don't tell" moment — except the model did the telling.

02

Google's TurboQuant Slashes AI Memory by 6×

Google Research unveiled **TurboQuant**, a compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory usage by at least 6× with "zero accuracy loss." Being presented at ICLR 2026. The trick: eliminating the memory overhead that traditional quantization introduces. If this scales, inference costs drop dramatically — and edge AI becomes genuinely viable. > Source: Google Research Blog

03

Music Industry's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" AI Policy

More than half of sample-based hip-hop is now being made with AI-generated funk/soul samples — according to producer Young Guru. The industry has quietly embraced it, but nobody admits it publicly. Artists are using AI for arrangements, demos, and sample material across all genres. The music industry is living proof: adoption runs ahead of policy, always. > Source: The Verge / Rolling Stone

04

AI Chatbots As Personal Advisors — Stanford Warns

A new Stanford study outlines the dangers of users asking AI chatbots for **personal advice** — particularly reliance, emotional dependency, and the erosion of human judgment. As AI becomes a default confidant for millions, the question isn't just "is the advice correct?" but "what happens when people stop asking humans altogether?" > Source: Radar News Scan

05

Anthropic's Claude — Consumer Growth Skyrocketing

Anthropic's Claude is seeing **explosive growth with paying consumers**, reportedly outpacing internal projections. Combined with the Mythos leak, this paints a picture of a company under pressure: growing fast, shipping fast, and apparently not locking down its CMS fast enough. > Source: Radar News Scan

Blog Pitches
The Compression Revolution: Why Better Math Beats More Compute — TurboQuant as a lens for the real AI efficiency race. Field Notes format, 400w.
The Music Industry's Secret: AI Is Already Here — How an entire creative industry quietly crossed the threshold. Playbook for other sectors.
Who Do You Ask When the AI Is Always Right? — Stanford's chatbot advice warning as a cultural inflection point. The New Playbook format.
LessWrong
Stanley Milgram wasn't pessimistic enough about human nature — 76✦) — A revisit of the obedience experiments with contemporary AI and authority implications
Don't Overdose Locally Beneficial Changes — 53✦) — Systems thinking on why optimizing one variable destroys the whole
Nick Bostrom: How big is the cosmic endowment? — 40✦) — Longtermist framing on civilizational stakes, relevant to AI trajectory debates
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