Issue No. 40Week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026507 episodes · 2183 articles
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Mythos: how often the top podcasts talk about it.

Mythos is the name of an Anthropic model (Claude Mythos).

Mythos came up in 5 of 89 episodes (6%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 11% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.

5 of 89episodes, four weeks to Sep 27

Share of episodes, four weeks at a time

12%May 106 of 529%Jun 74 of 4617%Jul 512 of 6911%Aug 26 of 554%Aug 302 of 556%Sep 275 of 89
Share of episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover that said “Mythos” at least twice, in blocks of four weeks. Each label is the block's last Sunday. The newest block is the orange bar on the right.
The 5 episodes behind the newest bar

Earliest mentions in our archive

The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.

“…of doing so, Anthropic is withholding its newest model, Mythos. I'm using the Greek uh pronunciation, its newest…”

All-In Podcast · week ending Apr 5 · Watch at 4:24 ↗

Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…

“But since you're on the opposite side, I'll ask you in the opposite way. One way to think about it is, Anthropic actually announced a couple days ago Mythos Preview. This model Mythos, they're not even releasing publicly because they say…”

Dwarkesh Podcast · week ending Apr 12 · Watch at 57:58 ↗

Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?

“…components. You know, he said, well, you know, with Mythos, if if we get early access to that, then we can go and…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 3:21 ↗

Aaron Levie

“…launch but built this incredible model mythos that is still in preview because it's so powerful people are a little…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Apr 19 · Watch at 10:55 ↗

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…

“…and we just aren't aware of it? And then like you know like the whole mythos roll out like that would be a very different…”

TBPN · week ending May 10 · Watch at 8:39 ↗

Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN

“…about specialized model training, Mythos, alignment research, and the Israeli ecosystem in security and now…”

No Priors · week ending May 31 · Watch at 1:01 ↗

Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan

Most recent mentions

The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.

“…just thinking the last time we spoke to this particular guest, I think we were on like GPT-4 or something back in 2023. And now, of course, I don't even know what number we're on because we've had all these new supermodels, like Astra and Mythos and all of those coming out. I know. Six, yeah. Yeah.”

Odd Lots · week ending Sep 13 · Listen at 5:30 ↗

Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real

“…than GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3, even though they’ve had access to not only distillation but logit distillation from Mythos?" The counter was that the prompt distribution really, really matters. You need to see what users are doing so that you…”

Dwarkesh Podcast · week ending Sep 13 · Watch at 23:37 ↗

AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

“…confused on or maybe aren't quite sure is when they hear things like mythos. It's like well you know this super…”

TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · Watch at 12:33 ↗

🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026

“…models are actually irrationally priced in that, you know, first of all, Mythos is infinite dollars a token, you can't…”

Lenny's Podcast · week ending Sep 6 · Watch at 22:28 ↗

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

“Sure. Uh, look, the good news is the the flex that Anthropic did with Mythos has every CEO talking about Mythos. I spent…”

20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Aug 9 · Watch at 23:35 ↗

Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B

Which shows say it

ShowLast four weeksAll weeks counted
Dwarkesh Podcast25
TBPN18
Lenny's Podcast13
Odd Lots11
All-In Podcast011
Latent Space04
20VC with Harry Stebbings03
The Tim Ferriss Show02
No Priors01

More trends

Episodes in the newest four weeks:

How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Mythos” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.

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