Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser. The meeting follows Anthropic’s blacklisting by the Pentagon after Amodei refused to remove safety restrictions, and comes as US Treasury, the intelligence community, CISA, and UK financial regulators all seek access to the model through Anthropic’s controlled Project Glasswing programme.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to meet White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday in what represents the most significant step yet toward resolving the company’s standoff with the Pentagon over its refusal to remove safety restrictions from its AI models. The meeting comes as multiple US government agencies, including the Treasury Department, the intelligence community, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...