US security agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist: Report | Technology News
US security agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist: Report | Technology News
Publish Date: 2026-04-19 23:55:00
Source Domain: indianexpress.com
- The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI tool despite facing a formal supply-chain risk designation from the Pentagon.
- Mythos Preview is said to be used more widely within the NSA, according to sources cited by Axios.
- The Pentagon and Anthropic recently had a dispute over the appropriate uses of Anthropic’s models, which has intensified concerns about the potential for enhanced cyberattack capabilities.
- The Mythos model, described by Anthropic as the company’s most capable yet for coding tasks, is seen as having a significant potential for identifying and exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
- Anthropic and both the NSA and the Department of Defense have not yet responded to requests for comment outside regular business hours.
- The discussions between Anthropic’s CEO and the Trump administration come amid rising fears about the implications of the Mythos model’s advanced autonomous coding and agentic task capabilities.
