The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic's Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.
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7:32 AM PDT · June 5, 2026
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Anthropic has deployed around half-a-dozen engineers to the National Security Agency to help its spies use the company’s frontier cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, The Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
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