{"id":233121,"date":"2026-04-19T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-technology-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:05:12","slug":"us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/19\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-technology-news\/","title":{"rendered":"US security agency is using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos despite blacklist: Report | Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-10645793\/\">US security agency is using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos despite blacklist: Report | Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-10645793\/\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-10645793\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-19 23:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"indianexpress.com\">indianexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-read-time\">2 min read<\/span><span class=\"city_article\">New Delhi<\/span><span class=\"date_update\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2026-04-20T09:25:45+05:30\">Apr 20, 2026 09:25 AM IST<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The United States National Security Agency is using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos Preview AI tool despite the Pentagon hitting the company with a formal supply-chain risk designation, Axios reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060Mythos \u200bPreview model was being used more widely within the department, Axios said, citing sources. Reuters could not immediately verify the \u200breport.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic, \u200bthe NSA and the \u2060Department of Defense did not immediately respond to requests for comment \u200coutside regular business hours. The NSA is part of the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and Anthropic\u2019s CEO discussed working together for the first time since a dispute \u2060earlier this \u2060year between the Pentagon and the AI firm over how \u2060that \u200ccompany\u2019s models should be \u200bused.<\/p>\n<p>The talks came amid growing \u200cfears the artificial intelligence startup\u2019s latest model Mythos will supercharge cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>The model \u200cis the \u200bcompany\u2019s \u201cmost capable \u200byet \u200bfor coding and agentic tasks,\u201d Anthropic has previously said, referring \u200bto the model\u2019s ability to act \u2060autonomously.<\/p>\n<p>Its capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially \u200cunprecedented \u2060ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, \u200bexperts have said.<\/p>\n<p>Expand<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-10645793\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US security agency is using Anthropic\u2019s Mythos despite blacklist: Report | Technology News https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-report-10645793\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.indianexpress.com\/2026\/03\/IE-2026-03-06T092344.821_20260311212443.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[31,57],"class_list":["post-233121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-exploit","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233123,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233121\/revisions\/233123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}