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- Anthropic is engaging with the Trump administration regarding its Mythos AI model after a contract dispute with the Pentagon. While the specifics are unclear, the discussions highlight potential regulatory scrutiny and government influence on the development and deployment of advanced AI technologies, creating uncertainty for AI companies.
Investing.com -- Anthropic is in discussions with the Trump administration regarding its frontier AI model Mythos, according to co-founder Jack Clark on Monday. The talks come after the Pentagon terminated business with the artificial intelligence company last month following a contract dispute.
The Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk in March, prohibiting its use by the agency and its contractors. The dispute centered on disagreements over guardrails for military applications of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools.
"We have a narrow contracting dispute, but I don’t want that to get in the way of the fact that we care deeply about national security," Clark said at the Semafor World Economy event in Washington. "Our position is the government has to know about this stuff ... So absolutely, we’re talking to them about Mythos, and we’ll talk to them about the next models as well."
The specific agencies involved in the discussions and the nature of the talks remain unclear.
Anthropic announced Mythos on April 7, describing it as the company’s most capable model for coding and agentic tasks.
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