An administration letter to Anthropic locked the NSA out of Mythos too (nytimes.com)
Mythos is described as a tool that broke into almost all of the NSA's classified systems in hours, not weeks. A classified Anthropic-NSA contract to use it for vulnerability detection was never finalized.
Then a single government letter pulled the plug for everyone. The thread's read: not a power grab but a self-inflicted lockout, with the real lever sitting in plain sight.
Engineers also push back on the panic, arguing Mythos's edge is the harness and toolset, not the weights, and that chaining small bugs is what actually breaks systems.
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