I’m of the Zitron school of “marketing stunt”, because OpenAI and Anthropic don’t have shit to show for their billions in spending, so they come up with headlines to keep the hype going.

“OMG this model is so powerful, it escaped confinement!” - This is great if you want to market it for certain govts, the implacable hacker that will bring down the enemy, also to moneyed idiots who were starting to doubt “GenAI is just around the corner, bro! Just another trillion dollars, for realsies this time!”, because only something that is almost GenAI could do something so incredible.