Cybersecurity, Claude Mythos, is Anthropic's model in the hands of the Nsa?

The National Security Agency (Nsa) is allegedly using Claude Mythos. The agency at the centre of the mass surveillance scandal triggered in 2013 by Edward Snowden's disclosures is said to be one of the companies included by Anthropic in Project Glasswing. This is that consortium of 40 companies in the technology, cybersecurity and finance sectors to which the company led by Dario Amodei has chosen to give access to its most powerful model, not yet available on the market.

The reason? Mythos is so good at detecting holes in computer security that it would pose a threat if released and made available to anyone. Breaking the news of the agency's possible involvement is the American newspaper Axios, which reported that it had received confirmation of this news from two sources inside the NSA, one of whom explained that Mytohs would be used in general by the entire department.

Where the department is that of Defence, or War as it has been renamed by President Donald Trump. This is the same department with which Anthropic had come to blows at the end of February, defending its decision to deny unconditional use of its artificial intelligence models to the US military. No to mass surveillance and no to machines deciding autonomously whom to shoot, the stakes set by the company developing Claude. A stance that triggered the wrath of Trump, who went so far as to ban all federal agencies from using Anthropic's products. This is why the news reported by Axios is making noise.

There are 40 companies involved in Project Glasswing, only 12 of which have been disclosed: the group includes Apple, Microsoft and Google, Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Nvidia. Plus Broadcom, Crowdstrike, JPMorgan Chase, Palo Alto Networks and The Linux Foundation. Plus, of course, Anthropic itself. The thirteenth could be the National Security Agency.

Also Axios, at the end of last week, had given news of a meeting between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Claude's 'daddy' Dario Amodei. A meeting during which the use of Mythos by the federal government was to be discussed. Both the artificial intelligence company and the Pentagon declined to comment on this issue, while the NSA and the office of the director of national intelligence, a position held by Tulsi Gabbard, did not respond to Axios' request for comment.