The White House opposes Anthropic's expansion of Mythos usage to 120 companies, citing insufficient computing power.

The White House recently opposed Anthropic's proposal to expand its AI model Mythos to approximately 120 companies, primarily citing security and computing power concerns. Anthropic originally planned to add 70 more companies to its existing network of about 50 using Mythos, but the White House questioned this, fearing insufficient computing power could affect the government's own use of the model. Mythos, released in early April, aims to detect and exploit critical software vulnerabilities and is currently limited to enterprise testing for managing critical infrastructure, with no plans for public release. The White House is concerned that expanding its use to more commercial users would create computing power bottlenecks for the government, particularly given Anthropic's existing computing power procurement agreements with Amazon, Google, and Broadcom, although signed, the new capacity has not yet been deployed. Politically, relations between the White House and Anthropic have not improved. The Trump administration has publicly criticized Anthropic for hiring several former Biden administration officials and expressed dissatisfaction with its ties to liberal organizations. One example illustrates the trust issue between the two parties: Collin Burns, a former researcher at Anthropic, was originally assigned to a government AI model evaluation position, but after learning of this, senior White House officials immediately replaced him, citing the need to avoid AI company personnel directly involved in dealings with other AI companies. Furthermore, Anthropic disclosed the unauthorized access to the Mythos model last week, further intensifying regulatory scrutiny of the company.