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Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing

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Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration. There were earlier signs of a thawing relationship — or a sense that not every part of the administration wanted to cut off Anthropic — with reports saying that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were encouraging the heads of major banks to test out Anthropic’s new Mythos model. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark seemed to confirm this, claiming that the ongoing fight over the supply-chain risk designation is a “narrow contracting dispute” that would not interfere with the company’s willingness to brief the government about its latest models. Then on Friday, Axios reported that Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. In a statement, the White House described this as an “introductory meeting” that was “productive and constructive.” “We discussed opportunities for collaboration, as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology,” the White …

Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic’s AI guardrails, with the hackers simply pretending to work for legitimate cybersecurity organizations — highlighting how woefully unprepared we are for powerful AI models that could accelerate the discovery of serious vulnerabilities. And now, Anthropic’s latest Mythos AI model is making that nightmare scenario feel more real than ever. As Bloomberg reports, the company’s executives were seemingly so alarmed by the system’s capabilities that they decided to only make it available to a select number of organizations as part of “Project Glasswing.” The goal: give the organizations a fighting chance to get ahead of a potential cybersecurity crisis in the making. But considering Anthropic has yet to publicly release its model, plenty of questions remain surrounding the company’s eyebrow-raising claims. In his own testing, Anthropic-affiliated …

We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and ‘Routines’ — here’s what enterprises should know

We tested Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app and ‘Routines’ — here’s what enterprises should know

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The transition from AI as a chatbot to AI as a workforce is no longer a theoretical projection; it has become the primary design philosophy for the modern developer’s toolkit. On April 14, 2026, Anthropic signaled this shift with a dual release: a complete redesign of the Claude Code desktop app (for Mac and Windows) and the launch of “Routines” in research preview. These updates suggest that for the modern enterprise, the developer’s role is shifting from a solo practitioner to a high-level orchestrator managing multiple, simultaneous streams of work. For years, the industry focused on “copilots”—single-threaded assistants that lived within the IDE and responded to the immediate line of code being written. Anthropic’s latest update acknowledges that the shape of “agentic work” has fundamentally changed. Developers are no longer just typing prompts and waiting for answers; they are initiating refactors in one repository, fixing bugs in another, and writing tests in a third, all while monitoring the progress of these disparate tasks. The redesigned desktop application reflects this change through its central “Mission Control” …

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts

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OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is facing skepticism from some of its own investors as the company scrambles to reorient itself around enterprise customers and fend off Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $30 billion by the end of March, driven largely by demand for its coding tools. One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI’s round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic’s current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain. The secondary market tells a similar story right now, where demand for Anthropic shares has grown nearly insatiable while OpenAI shares are trading at a discount. Altman has been here before. During his tenure leading Y Combinator, aggressive valuation inflation left some portfolio companies financially stranded while others proved worth every penny and then some. Iconiq Capital partner Roy Luo — whose firm has invested over $1 billion in Anthropic while holding a smaller stake in OpenAI — told …

In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

In the Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

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OpenAI on Tuesday announced the next phase of its cybersecurity strategy and a new model specifically designed for use by digital defenders, GPT-5.4-Cyber. The news comes in the wake of an announcement last week by competitor Anthropic that its new Claude Mythos Preview model is only being privately released for now—because, the company says, it could be exploited by hackers and bad actors. Anthropic also announced an industry coalition, including competitors like Google, focused on how advances in generative AI across the field will impact cybersecurity. OpenAI seemed to be seeking to differentiate its message on Tuesday by striking a less catastrophic tone and touting its existing guardrails and defenses while hinting at the need for more advanced protections in the long term. “We believe the class of safeguards in use today sufficiently reduce cyber risk enough to support broad deployment of current models,” the company wrote in a blog post. “We expect versions of these safeguards to be sufficient for upcoming more powerful models, while models explicitly trained and made more permissive for cybersecurity …

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents gives enterprises a new one-stop shop but raises vendor ‘lock-in’ risk

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Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks. Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises, already burdened with orchestrating an increasing number of agents, can now choose to embed the orchestration logic in the AI model layer. While this comes with some potential advantages, such as speed (Anthropic proposes its customers can deploy agents in days instead of weeks or months), it also, of course, then also turns more control over the enterprise’s AI agent deployments and operations to the model provider — in this case, Anthropic — potentially resulting in greater “lock in” for the enterprise customer, leaving them more subject to Anthropic’s terms, conditions, and any subsequent platform changes. But maybe that is worth it for your enterprise, as Anthropic further claims that its platform “handles the complexity” by letting users define agent tasks, tools and guardrails with a built-in orchestration harness, all without the need for sandboxing code …

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg.  Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the initial partner organizations with access to the model, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are reportedly testing Mythos as well. Anthropic announced the model this week but said it would be limiting access for now, in part because Mythos — despite not being trained specifically for cybersecurity — is too good at finding security vulnerabilities. (Others suggested this was hype or simply a smart enterprise sales strategy.) The report is particularly surprising since Anthropic is currently battling the Trump administration in court over the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk; that designation came after negotiations fell apart over the company’s efforts to limit how its AI models can be used by the government. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that U.K. …

Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release – Tech 24

Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release – Tech 24

Published by Sam Flores

One of the world’s leading AI companies has built a model so powerful that it refuses to fully release it publicly just yet, prompting urgent talks from Wall Street to financial regulators in the UK. Anthropic says its new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so advanced at finding software weaknesses that the company fears it could become a hacker’s most powerful tool. It’s believed to have uncovered tens of thousands of critical software vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. During testing, the model allegedly autonomously broke out of its “sandbox, a secure virtual environment, and independently published details of its own escape online.  So Anthropic is keeping it from public release. Instead, it has launched Project Glasswing, which gives controlled access to the AI model to more than 40 tech and financial firms, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, to find and patch flaws in critical systems before it’s released to the general public and hackers can. Anthropic is backing the project with $100US million in usage credits and $4 million in …

Vance, Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic’s Mythos release, CNBC reports

Vance, Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic’s Mythos release, CNBC reports

Published by Sam Flores

April 10 : U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent questioned leading tech CEOs about AI model security and how to respond to cyber attacks a week before Anthropic released its new Mythos model, CNBC reported on Friday.  Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and the heads of Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike were on the call, according to the report. Anthropic declined to comment, while Alphabet, OpenAI, Microsoft, Palo Alto and CrowdStrike did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.  Earlier this week, Anthropic launched a powerful AI model but held off on releasing it widely over concerns that it could expose hidden cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Only a group of around 40 tech heavyweights, including Microsoft and Google, would have access to Anthropic’s “Claude Mythos” model. The startup had said it had been in ongoing discussions with the U.S. government about the model’s capabilities. Source link

Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think

Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think

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Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. So, is it more AI hype—or a true turning point? According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview crosses a threshold of capabilities to discover vulnerabilities in virtually any and every operating system, browser, or other software product and autonomously develop working exploits for hacking. With this in mind, the company is only releasing the new model to a few dozen organizations for now—including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and the Linux Foundation—as part of a consortium dubbed Project Glasswing. But after years of speculation about how generative AI could impact cybersecurity, the news this week ignited controversy about whether a reckoning has really arrived and what it might look like in practice. Some are extremely skeptical of Anthropic’s claims. They argue that existing AI agents can already help users find and exploit vulnerabilities much more easily and cheaply than ever before, and that this reality is …