Anthropic is blacklisted by the Pentagon and being used by the NSA at the same time (opens in new tab)

submitted by The Financial Times reports that Anthropic has installed half a dozen engineers inside the NSA as forward-deployed staff. Their job is said to involve guiding the agency’s use of Claude Mythos and customizing the model for specific applications. It remains unclear whether the Anthropic employees are helping with live hacking operations, or if Mythos is being used in active campaigns. But one person close to the arrangement told the FT that the model would be useful for infiltrati...