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Posted by Palmik 4 days ago

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist(www.axios.com)
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yen223 3 days ago|
Curious: how many people here chose - not forced - to stop using Anthropic stuff because of the risk it posed to your supply-chain?
vasco 4 days ago||
Are they on a blacklist or there was a random tweet from the president saying they are? Because sanctions and tariffs change day to day...
mcherm 4 days ago||
Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress.

The Supreme Court has blessed this new form of government, declaring that the President is immune to all laws, but retaining for themselves the right to reverse any tweet on the "shadow docket".

barney54 4 days ago|||
It’s funny that you say that tweets are US policy when the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs.
dgellow 4 days ago|||
The tariffs were in all sense US policy until they got struck down. There is nothing inconsistent here
GrinningFool 4 days ago|||
In the intervening 6-12 months, they were policy. Since then he's tweet^H^H^H^H^Htruthedsome new tarriff policies that are currently in effect.
forkerenok 4 days ago|||
You're obviously trolling. Those are called "truths", and you know it!
SyneRyder 4 days ago|||
Anthropic is on a blacklist. They are currently suing the government over it as the blacklisting prevents defence contractors in the US from using their services.

This is the best link I could find quickly about it, a WSJ gift link so it can be read without a subscription:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anthropic-sue...

just_once 4 days ago||
So why is everything still working?
Rover222 3 days ago||
I still think they just don’t have enough compute to release the model to the masses.
jonathanstrange 3 days ago||
Out of curiosity, how does "Axios" know what the NSA is using?
yellow_lead 3 days ago||
> The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/nsa-anthropic-mythos-pentag...

"two sources" I guess

baq 3 days ago||
nice try mr FBI agent
nialse 4 days ago||
That is expected. What is not expected is us knowing about it. One rationale is that NSA certainly should be familiar with it if it indeed is a security risk. Nothing to see here.
roysting 4 days ago|
I find that confidence quite unsettling considering everything we know about just the government in general, not even to mention what Snowden released, and I know he did not release everything.

Are you at all familiar with what Snowden released? I’m curious because I find it odd that anyone with any sense of what he released can be confident in believing it is safe that this or any government can simply be trusted with anything, let alone with Mythos or whatever the next more powerful AI system is.

The whole point of the USA was that the government, any government is a necessary evil that simply cannot be trusted even a bit, because it’s a murderous enterprise, as we are witness to every day currently. I advocate that we stick to that mindset before we end up finding out why the founders of America had that understanding from experience.

nialse 4 days ago|||
My point was narrower than suggested. If Mythos is in fact a security risk, then the NSA is one of the actors most likely to already understand that. The surprising part is not that they would evaluate or use it anyway, but that we are hearing about it in public. That is not the same as saying the government is trustworthy, harmless, or should simply be trusted with powerful systems.

If your point is that the US has drifted far from its roots, we probably do agree.

fancyfredbot 4 days ago||||
I don't see the OP implying that anyone should trust the government. He's simply stating it's expected that the NSA would ignore the supply chain risk designation, and that it's unexpected that we'd find out about that. If anything the comment seems to imply a lack of trust in government.
rozal 4 days ago|||
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badgersnake 3 days ago||
My fridge has it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythos_Beer

caycep 3 days ago||
are they using it or are they poking holes/weaponizing it? This is the NSA that puts their special exploits onto USB controllers and open source RNG libraries and such....
miroljub 4 days ago||
At this point, using any Anthropic model should be considered unethical.
josefritzishere 3 days ago|
More lawlessness.
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