This, exactly.

This press release, like the chain of “our AI broke containment and hacked into the Pentagon and the World Bank, oops!” brags, serves one purpose: to give the impression that the Skynet Singularity is unfolding and that humanity’s only chance for survival is to cannibalise everything else, from regulations protecting the conditions that allow human life to exist to any activity that’s not racing to build the Computer God before someone else does, in a last-ditch hail-Mary effort to head off the apocalypse, also inflating the AI bubble and allowing the grifters who bet that if you pile up enough Nvidia GPUs, run enough terawatts through them and feed them the shreds of the world’s libraries, you can create God and make him your servant to cash out.