Anthropic Embeds ~6 Engineers Inside the NSA for Offensive Cyber Ops as Pentagon Lawsuit Continues

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A June 5 report details ~6 Anthropic engineers embedded at the NSA as forward-deployed staff, customizing the Mythos model for offensive cyber operations that can autonomously find vulnerabilities, write exploits, and run tests without human intervention between steps — including potential use against networks in China and Iran. Anthropic is simultaneously fighting the Department of War's §4713 'supply chain risk' designation (filed March 9 lawsuits; a judge granted a preliminary injunction March 26 citing First Amendment retaliation) after refusing to permit Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Glasswing's Mythos has reportedly found 10,000+ high/critical vulnerabilities in six weeks and produced 181 working Firefox exploits.