- NSA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI Despite Pentagon Calling Company a Supply Chain Risk
- Mythos, part of Project Glasswing, capable of discovering and exploiting zero days
- Anthropic previously rejected the Defense Department’s request to weaken the guardrails; Lawsuits followed, while the Trump administration met with the CEO to discuss cooperation.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is using Anthropic’s Mythos Preview AI tool, despite the company being deemed a supply chain risk by the Pentagon earlier this year. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Axios said Mythos Preview is being used “more widely” within the department.
At the moment, neither the United States Department of Defense (DoD) nor the NSA commented on the news. Anthropic has not commented on the matter either.
In February this year, the US government asked Anthropic to remove barriers put in place for its AI tools, which the company rejected over fears they could be used for “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons.”
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What is Mythos Preview?
Just days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that the company “cannot in good conscience” accede to the Department of Defense’s request, the US government deemed the AI company posed a “risk to the supply chain.” Anthropic responded with two federal lawsuits, alleging violations of protected speech.
White House spokeswoman Liz Huston commented on the lawsuits, saying that Anthropic was “a radical, woke, left-wing company,” adding that “under the Trump administration, our military will obey the United States Constitution, not the terms of service of any artificial intelligence company.”
Mythos Preview is a newer model of Anthropic Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and part of the Glasswing Project. It was first mentioned in early April, when the company said it would not release it to the public because it was too dangerous.
The tool was apparently able, with very little information, to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, including “zero-day” flaws. Access to Project Glasswing was limited to a handful of large software companies, such as Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, Nvidia and a few others, who were offered to get a head start and secure their products.
In its report, PakGazette said US President Donald Trump’s administration met with Anthropic’s chief executive last week to discuss working together, for the first time since the dispute began.
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