Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies. The DoD CTO told CNBC's Becky Quick on Friday that, as far as his department is concerned, Anthropic is still a supply chain …

[NoneSuch]

Acid Test

My first inquiry on any new LLM or AI Assistant is "Tell me what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989"

That tells you everything you need to know.

[EdSaxby]

Re: Acid Test

In future it might also be "how many wars did Donald Trump end during his second term"

[DS999]

How about asking

"Who won the 2020 presidential election in the US?"

That seems to trip up every single member of Trump's cabinet, and once Musk is done "fixing" it probably will be a problem for Grok as well.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How about asking

Claude 4.6’s system prompt had to contain an explicit correction on this. Thankfully the truth seems to have now won out since, averaged across the internet, and they’ve been able to remove it.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/apr/18/opus-system-prompt/

Goodness knows how much CO2 was emitted as a result of prepending that to every query on any subject.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How about asking

Oops, I’d confused the elections. It’s still an interesting blog though.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: How about asking

That's where all my tokens go!

[elsergiovolador]

Re: Acid Test

You can also try "Which year American people elected a pedo as their president?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Acid Test

You should ask the AI how many victims of the recent stabbing there actually was. It was more than two.

[Anonymous Coward]

Kinda like ...

"Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO." Like when you break up with a woman and the next week she gets a boob job.