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When we covered Project Glasswing earlier this month, the story was about a model too dangerous to release publicly and what Anthropic decided to do with it instead. That story has moved. On Friday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walked into the West Wing for a meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Treasury […] The post Anthropic walks into the White House and Mythos is the reason Washington let it in appeared first on AI News.

Federal agencies have requested access to Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic says can rapidly identify — and potentially create — new cyberthreats.

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Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the economy, but artificially intelligent computer programs that might be getting a little too good. If you skim through today’s news, like the report on White House efforts to curb dangerous advanced AI, you’ll get a sense of what is going on. The government, bankers, and AI leaders are all in urgent talks over something. Why are they meeting with such urgency? Several current state-of-the-art AI models are not just able […]

Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly attends meeting in Washington following release of Claude Mythos The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, according to reports. Jerome Powell, chair of the Rederal Reserve, was said to have been among those gathered at the Treasury headquarters for the meeting after the release of the Claude Mythos AI model that Anthropic says poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks. Continue reading...

A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to suspend the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic, leaving defense contractors with conflicting legal signals over whether they can continue using Claude, and putting the ruling at odds with a separate federal court that reached the opposite conclusion last month. “The equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government,” a three-judge panel wrote in its order Wednesday. “On one side is a relatively contained risk of financial harm to a single private company. On the other side is judicial management of how, and through whom, the Department of War secures vital AI technology during an active military conflict.” The panel, comprising Judges Henderson, Katsas, and Rao, acknowledged that Anthropic “will likely suffer some degree of irreparable harm” but found its interests “seem primarily financial in nature” rather than constitutional. The order states the ruling is not a final decision on the merits. Oral argum