NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud

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The National Security Agency is said to beryllium utilizing Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s precocious announced exemplary that it withheld from nationalist release, Axios reports. The quality comes weeks aft the NSA’s genitor agency, the Department of Defense, labeled Anthropic a “supply concatenation risk,” aft the institution refused to let Pentagon officials unrestricted entree to its model’s afloat capabilities.

Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this period arsenic a frontier exemplary designed for cybersecurity tasks, but claimed the exemplary was excessively susceptible of violative cyberattacks to beryllium released publicly. As a result, the AI steadfast constricted entree to Mythos to astir 40 organizations, of which it has publically named only a dozen. 

The NSA appears to beryllium among the undisclosed recipients, and is said to beryllium utilizing Mythos chiefly for scanning environments for exploitable vulnerabilities. The UK’s AI Security Institute has besides confirmed it has access to Mythos.

The U.S. military’s expanding usage of Anthropic’s tools comes arsenic it simultaneously argues successful court that those tools tin endanger nationalist security. The Pentagon’s quality originated erstwhile Anthropic refused to marque Claude disposable for wide home surveillance and autonomous weapons development. 

The NSA’s entree to Mythos comes arsenic Anthropic’s narration with the Trump medication appears to beryllium thawing. Last Friday, Anthropic main enforcement Dario Amodei met with White House main of unit Susie Wiles and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

The White House reportedly called the gathering productive.

TechCrunch has reached retired to the NSA for comment. Anthropic declined to comment. 

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