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The Trump administration spent nearly two months fighting with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. that it Name the company A “radical left-wing, woke company” full of “left-wing jobs” and a threat to national security. But it is said that some ice may melt between the two, thanks to anthropics A buzzy new paradigm focused on cybersecurity: Claude Mythos Preview.
Human relationship with the Pentagon I got nervous quickly in late February after the company refused to budge on two red lines: using its technology for local mass surveillance or fully autonomous lethal weapons without any human intervention. Anthropic’s technology has in the past been used extensively by the Department of Defense, and was the first company to license its models to operate on classified military networks. The stalemate led to public insults on social media, with Anthropy being labeled as “Supply chain risks“, and the company filed a lawsuit Fight that labeland A Temporary order Stop blocking it.
Anthropic recently attempted to return to the US government’s generosity, at least in some capacity, with the Mythos Preview. and Judging from the reports That Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a meeting at the White House on Friday may have been a success. (Anthropic did not provide comment.)
Mythos Preview was announced to great fanfare about its capabilities, including the ability to find security issues in almost every major web browser and operating system. Anthropic says the model is the most powerful yet, and is currently only available for private access. It’s marketed as a way to identify high-risk vulnerabilities in some of our most widely used internet infrastructure, so that companies like Apple, Nvidia, and JPMorgan Chase — which have already signed up to use it — can plug them before bad actors can exploit them. The Mythos Preview version is said to have already been released Emergency meetings Between US banking leaders and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
The Trump administration also appears to be taking notice. In a statement about the Mythos Preview, Anthropic wrote that it was already in “ongoing discussions with US government officials about the Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.” Earlier this month, when Edge Request detailsDiane Penn, Anthropic’s head of product management, confirmed that the company has “briefed senior officials in the US government on Mythos and what it can do,” and that the company remains “committed to working closely with all different levels of government.” The company declined to specify who exactly was briefed.
Also reportedly newly It hired Ballard Partners, a Trump-linked lobbying firm, which inspired more reports that a deal between Anthropic and the White House may be in the works.
Friday, Axios I mentioned Amodei was scheduled to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles later that day. Describing the reasons for the meeting, a source familiar with the negotiations said: “It would be completely irresponsible for the US government to deprive itself of the technological leaps offered by the new model” and that “it would be a gift to China.” The outlet also reported that “some parts of the US intelligence community, as well as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, part of Homeland Security)” are testing Mythos Preview, and that other departments and agencies are interested.
If Amodei does attend the meeting and opens talks about further integrating Anthropic’s Claude into government use across agencies, it’s possible that the DoD will change its views on Claude accordingly as well. It would be an unexpected end to a bitter battle over national security, but it is not the first time the administration has suddenly reversed course.