You're confusing PR with marketing. Flaws they find aren't going to convince customers to buy the product. But they need to inform the public of what they doing as it's part of the mission.

I haven't seen media outlets picking up on "agentic misalignment".

The core of your claim is that it's not a legit research. But that's basically a conspiracy theory. We know for a fact that Anthropic employs some of the best people in the industry, including ones who are deeply concerned about safety. Their interpretability research is some of the best. So what's more likely:

* Research is fake and everyone is on it * It's a legit research even if not very interesting