The US government’s AI fight just got harder to square. The National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic‘s Mythos Preview even as senior Pentagon officials keep pushing to cut the company off over supply chain concerns. It shows how quickly real security needs can outrun official policy.
Since February, the Defense Department has been trying to block Anthropic and push vendors to do the same. Yet, according to an Axios report, the NSA appears to be moving ahead with one of the company’s most powerful models anyway, suggesting cybersecurity demand is carrying more weight than the feud now playing out inside government.
Why Mythos access is so limited
Mythos stands out because Anthropic appears to be keeping it on a short leash. Sources said the company limited access to around 40 organizations because of the model’s offensive cyber capabilities, and only some of those users have been publicly named. One
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