According to Odaily Odaily, the White House recently opposed Anthropic's proposal to expand its AI model Mythos to approximately 120 companies, primarily due to security and computing power concerns. Anthropic originally planned to add 70 more companies to its existing network of about 50 using Mythos, but the White House questioned this, worrying that insufficient computing power could affect the government's own use of Mythos.
Released in early April, Mythos is designed to detect and exploit critical software vulnerabilities. Currently, it is limited to enterprise testing for managing critical infrastructure, with no plans for public release. The White House is concerned that expanding its use to more commercial users would create computing power bottlenecks for the government, particularly given Anthropic's computing power procurement agreements with Amazon, Google, and Broadcom, although the agreements have been signed, the new capacity has not yet been brought online.
Politically, relations between the White House and Anthropic have not improved. The Trump administration has publicly criticized Anthropic for hiring several former Biden administration officials and expressed dissatisfaction with its ties to liberal organizations. One example illustrates the trust issue between the two sides: Collin Burns, a former Anthropic researcher, was originally assigned to a government AI model evaluation position, but after learning of this, senior White House officials replaced him, citing the need to avoid AI company personnel directly involved in dealings with other AI companies.
In addition, Anthropic disclosed unauthorized access to the Mythos model last week, further escalating regulatory scrutiny of the company.
