Axios: 'Washington Has a New Anthropic Problem' — Company's AI Capabilities Too Important to Ignore Despite Pentagon Blacklist

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Axios frames the emerging policy dilemma: Anthropic's Mythos model can find software vulnerabilities beyond most human experts, Claude Security is entering enterprise beta, and the company has pushed deeper into creative and security tooling — making the Pentagon blacklist increasingly untenable. The White House is 'inching toward welcoming Anthropic back' because its most advanced models are too powerful to ignore, despite months of animosity.