The US has allowed Anthropic to release Mythos 5 to “trusted” orgs, with about 100 US companies and federal agencies now having access, and the White House said appropriate safeguards were now in place. Separately, a Chinese AI model has matched Mythos in finding security bugs, as security researchers say Zhipu AI is poised to reset the AI race. In other technology news, Apple is seeking approval to buy chips from a blacklisted Chinese firm, lobbying the White House for clearance to buy from ChangXin. Additionally, the article highlights the inevitable weakness of metrics, noting that external metrics and data can never capture what's truly important and can redefine one's core sense of what's important. It also covers an elephant alert system in India, which is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, with around 80% of their habitat lying outside protected areas, leading to some 3,000 human casualties in the last five years and over 1,000 elephant deaths since 2014; in response, state forest departments, NGOs, and locals are designing, testing, and deploying AI systems that cut response and warning times to minutes or even seconds.