NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations

Key points

• In Brief Anthropic has deployed around half-a-dozen engineers to the Security Agency to help its spies use the company’s frontier cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
• The engineers are reportedly tasked with helping the intelligence agency use Mythos for certain applications, the report said.
• However, it’s unclear if the engineers or Mythos are being actively used in the agency’s hacking operations.
• The NSA is tasked with collecting intelligence from wiretaps, undersea cables, corporate partnerships, and other clandestine means, as well as conducting offensive cyberattacks on foreign adversaries.
• FT’s report adds to earlier news from Axios, which reported in April that the NSA was using Mythos despite a federal ban on using Anthropic’s technology.