> ignites a new digital "cold war"

Already been going on for over a decade - export controls on dual use technology like Xeon processors already began being enforced back in the Obama admin.

> until the launch takes place

It's already launched. Some companies had access to Mythos for months.

> fuelling the hype

This is true. Commercially available models from a year ago are already good enough from an offensive security perspective. Their big issue was noise, but that could be managed.