White House to give US agencies Anthropic Mythos access, Bloomberg News reports
Source: Reuters
The U.S. government is planning to make a version of Anthropic's frontier AI model Mythos available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase cybersecurity risk, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
Announced on April 7, Mythos is being deployed as part of Anthropic's "Project Glasswing," a controlled initiative as part of which select organizations are permitted to use the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive cybersecurity purposes.
Mythos has found "thousands" of major vulnerabilities in operating systems, web browsers and other software. Its capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts said.
Gregory Barbaccia, federal chief information officer at the White House Office of Management and Budget, told Cabinet department officials in an email on Tuesday that the OMB was setting up protections to allow their agencies to begin using Mythos, according to Bloomberg News.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-give-us-agencies-anthropic-mythos-access-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-16/
WTF is wrong with Anthropic's CEO? Amodei tells everyone how dangerous this AI model is, and now he's giving it to Trump regime agencies whose top people are incompetent at best, and in many cases corrupt and evil and already actively undermining our democracy and environment, and harming other countries as well.
Is this some kind of insane deal with Trump to get the regime to stop labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk?
Miguelito Loveless
(5,810 posts)China and Russia now have it.
COL Mustard
(8,278 posts)Hegseth declared Anthropic to be a national security threat. How can we use their products now? Or did the Divine Don say it was okay so all is forgiven?
I am very confused. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Parallax El
(25 posts)It's no major leap forward in LLM tech. One review I read was very detailed, and absolutely eviscerated the source document.
1. Out of something like ~244 pages in the source doc, only 7 were dedicated to the security vulnerability assessment. There was no mention of the much-touted "thousands" of zero-days claimed in the media. None.
2. Those 7 pages of security assessment were in turn based on something like ~54 already known vulnerabilities in Firefox version whatever that were identified by Anthropic Opus model. They basically took Opus output and gave it to Mythos to work on. 54 NOT "thousands".
3. Mythos did not assess Firefox version X, at all. It assessed a un-sandboxed javascript runtime environment that emulated an unsecured Firefox version X.
4. By the time Anthropic ran this fake test, Firefox had already released a security update plugging the 54 holes that Opus (not Mythos) had previously identified.
To sum:
No "thousands".
Not "Mythos".
Not "Firefox".
Not "zero-day".
Now we see Anthropic getting a gov't contract, after all, and Mythos is being hidden from the public and touted as a huge step forward.
This is how Anthropic is getting around the pipeline ban that Kegsbreath put in place after they wouldn't cow to his demand for robot soldiers.