White House and Anthropic hold 'productive' meeting amid fears over Mythos model
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... The White House has said it has had a "productive and constructive" meeting with the head of artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, which is suing the US Department of Defense.

The meeting comes a week after the firm released its Claude Mythos preview, an AI tool that the company claims can outperform humans at some hacking and cyber-security tasks.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, Axios reports.

A representative of Anthropic did not comment on the meeting, which comes two months after the White House derided the firm as a "radical left, woke company". ...

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
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... The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense " which oversees the NSA " insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios. ...

A "supply chain risk?"