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Washington’s Scramble to Get Anthropic’s Powerful New Model
Federal agencies have requested access to Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic says can rapidly identify — and potentially create — new cyberthreats.
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By
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Bernhard Warner
Sarah Kessler
Michael J. de la Merced
Niko Gallogly
and
Brian O’Keefe
April 17, 2026,
7:51 a.m. ET
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Government agencies are seeking access to Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos Preview.
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While government and corporate leaders worry about the cybersecurity threats raised by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, there is another conundrum that has gone unexplained. I’ve been speaking to bank executives and A.I. researchers who tell me we are entering an era of the “reverse-engineered exploit,” or the “patch gap.”
Once Mythos identifies a bug, a patch needs to be issued to fix it. But hackers have a window of time to study the fix and strike before it’s implemented. That’s always been the case. But in the past, only one or two patches were dealt with at a time. Now it’s likely to be hundreds or thousands of patches.
So this becomes a race against time where the very act of repairing a system provides a blueprint for breaking it. Think about that.
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The rollout of Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence model is continuing to reverberate not just in C-suites, but in the halls of government.
Anthropic has warned
that the model, Claude Mythos Preview, could uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities — and potentially create new ones — at unprecedented speed and scale. That’s increasingly persuading officials in Washington and elsewhere that they need access to help guard against next-generation cyberthreats.
The White House is working to make Mythos available to federal agencies,
according to Bloomberg
. (DealBook has heard the same thing.) Anthropic has limited access to Mythos to a few dozen companies so far, though it briefed government officials on its capabilities before the model’s release.
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