White House and Anthropic hold 'productive' meeting amid fears over Mythos model

The discussion is a sign the AI firm's technology may be too critical for even the US government to do without.

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The meeting comes a week after the firm released its Claude Mythos preview, an AI tool that the company claims can outperform humans at some hacking and cyber-security tasks.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, Axios reports.

A representative of Anthropic did not comment on the meeting, which comes two months after the White House derided the firm as a "radical left, woke company".

So far, only a few dozen companies have been given access to Mythos, which researchers have said is "strikingly capable at computer security tasks".