The NSA is still using Anthropic's Mythos large model, despite being flagged for risks

BlockBeats News, April 20th - According to a report from AXIOS, two sources revealed that despite senior officials at the Department of Defense (the parent agency of the NSA) insisting that Anthropic poses a "supply chain risk," the National Security Agency is still using the company's most powerful model to date, the "Mythos Preview."

The sources stated that the NSA is actively using Mythos, with one of them mentioning that the model has a broader usage within the Department of Defense. It is currently unclear how the NSA is utilizing Mythos, but other organizations with access to the model primarily use it to scan their environments for exploitable security vulnerabilities. Anthropic has restricted access to Mythos to about 40 organizations, believing that its offensive cyber capabilities are too risky for wider dissemination.

Anthropic has only disclosed 12 of these organizations. One source claimed that the NSA is one of the unnamed entities with access.