Overview
- Axios reported that the National Security Agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview even as the Pentagon labels the company a “supply chain risk.”
- Access to Mythos remains tightly limited to about 40 vetted partners due to concerns that its hacking skills could be misused.
- It is not clear how the NSA runs the tool, but other approved users task it with scanning their own networks for exploitable software flaws.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and both sides called the discussion on guarded government use productive.
- The company is challenging the Pentagon’s designation in court, where one judge granted a narrow injunction and another let the label stand, leaving the case unresolved.