{"id":9331,"date":"2026-04-21T03:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:16:33","slug":"nsa-spies-are-reportedly-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-pentagon-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9331\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic\u2019s recently announced model that it withheld from public release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/19\/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Axios reports<\/a>. The news comes weeks after the NSA\u2019s parent agency, the Department of Defense, labeled Anthropic a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/05\/its-official-the-pentagon-has-labeled-anthropic-a-supply-chain-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supply-chain risk<\/a>,\u201d after the company refused to allow Pentagon officials unrestricted access to its model\u2019s full capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month as a frontier model designed for cybersecurity tasks, but claimed the model was too capable of offensive cyberattacks to be released publicly. As a result, the AI firm limited access to Mythos to around 40 organizations, of which it has publicly named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">only a dozen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NSA appears to be among the undisclosed recipients, and is said to be using Mythos primarily for scanning environments for exploitable vulnerabilities. The U.K.\u2019s AI Security Institute has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mi5-called-protect-britain-breakthrough-060000124.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">confirmed it has access<\/a> to Mythos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. military\u2019s expanding use of Anthropic\u2019s tools comes as it simultaneously argues in <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/09\/anthropic-sues-defense-department-over-supply-chain-risk-designation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court<\/a> that those tools can threaten national security. The Pentagon\u2019s dispute originated when Anthropic refused to make Claude available for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NSA\u2019s access to Mythos comes as Anthropic\u2019s relationship with the Trump administration appears to be <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/18\/anthropics-relationship-with-the-trump-administration-seems-to-be-thawing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thawing<\/a>. Last Friday, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/17\/anthropic-white-house-wiles-bessent-amodei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reportedly<\/a> called the meeting productive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to the NSA for comment. Anthropic declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tGot a tip or documents about the AI industry? From a non-work device, contact Rebecca Bellan confidentially at rebecca.bellan@techcrunch.com or Signal: rebeccabellan.491. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic\u2019s recently announced model that it withheld&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,313,8048,2195,353,7114],"class_list":{"0":"post-9331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anthropic","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-cybersecurity","10":"tag-dod","11":"tag-in-brief","12":"tag-mythos","13":"tag-nsa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}