White House and Anthropic hold 'productive' meeting amid fears over Mythos model
The discussion is a sign the AI firm's technology may be too critical for even the US government to do without.
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Notable Quotes
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again!"
— Donald Trump , Politician
"spoken to officials across the US government and offered to work with them."
— Dario Amodei , Executive
"OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using the closely guarded AI tool, Mythos."
— Gregory Barbaccia , Executive
"Anytime Anthropic is scaring people, you have to ask, ‘Is this a tactic? Is this part of their Chicken Little routine? Or is it real?’"
— David Sacks , Executive
"Anytime Anthropic is scaring people, you have to ask, 'Is this a tactic? Is this part of their Chicken Little routine? Or is it real?'"
— David Sacks , Executive
"It just makes sense that as the coding models become more and more capable, they are more capable at finding bugs."
— David Sacks , Executive
"We're releasing it to a subset of some of the world's most important companies and organizations so they can use this to find vulnerabilities."
— Jack Clark , Executive
"Anytime Anthropic is scaring people, you have to ask, 'Is this a tactic? Is this part of their Chicken Little routine? Or is it real?' With cyber, I actually would give them credit in this case and say this is more on the real side."
— David Sacks , Executive
"Mythos reveals a lot more vulnerabilities."
— Jamie Dimon , Executive
"We discussed opportunities for collaboration, as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology."
— Scott Bessent , Executive
"I have no idea."
— Donald Trump , Politician
Key People
Dario Amodei is a co-founder of Anthropic.
Former AI advisor to President Trump.
Former president of the United States known for his aggressive economic policies.
Gregory Barbaccia is the federal chief information officer of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, a company focused on artificial intelligence.
Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase.
Pete Hegseth is the United States Secretary of Defense.
Rita Lin is a federal judge who ruled in favor of Anthropic in a lawsuit against the Pentagon.
Scott Bessent is the Treasury Secretary.
White House Chief of Staff.
Thomas Regnier is a spokesman for the European Commission.
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The discussion is a sign the AI firm's technology may be too critical for even the US government to do without.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles plans to meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, which has attracted attention from the federal government for its potential impact on national security and the economy.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, focusing on collaboration and safety in AI deployment.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, amid concerns over its potential impact on cybersecurity and national security.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amode ... to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, focusing on collaboration and safety in AI deployment.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Am ... to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, focusing on collaboration and safety in AI deployment.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amode ... is scheduled to meet with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles 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 Trump administration and Anthropic’s CEO discussed working together for the first time since a dispute earlier this year between the Pentagon and the AI firm over how that company’s models should be used.
The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic's powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase cybersecurity risk.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles plans to meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, which has attracted attention from the federal government for its potential impact on national security and the economy.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles plans to meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos, which has attracted attention from the federal government for its potential impact on national security and the economy.
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