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Tech and cyber companies were sent questions about artificial intelligence-led cybersecurity threats, including those posed by Anthropic’s advanced AI model, Mythos.

There is a growing focus in Washington on the evolving threat that hyper-advanced AI tools like Anthropic's Claude Mythos may pose to national security and digital infrastructure. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

The White House has asked a group of tech companies to answer a set of questions this week about how to ward off digital attacks that frontier artificial intelligence tools could soon enable, according to four people with knowledge of discussions between the administration and the tech sector.

The questions, from the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director, focus on how specific sectors in the tech and cybersecurity industries can work with the White House to boost their defenses with AI, these people said. Companies have been asked to respond to them by Friday.