NSA Is Using Anthropic's Claude Mythos Despite Pentagon Blacklist
The US government is not a monolith — and nowhere is that clearer right now than in its relationship with Anthropic. On one side: the Pentagon, which formally designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk in early 2026 and instructed defense contractors to drop Claude from their workflows. On the other: the National Security Agency, which is quietly deploying Anthropic’s most capable model — Claude Mythos Preview — for its own cybersecurity operations. ...