Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cyberscurity agency

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been excluded from accessing Anthropic's Mythos, a powerful AI model designed to identify and patch critical security vulnerabilities, while other federal agencies like NSA and the Commerce Department have gained access. This exclusion, combined with workforce reductions and budget cuts under the current administration, significantly undermines CISA's core mission to protect critical national infrastructure and coordinate cybersecurity defenses across state and local governments. For IT leaders, this signals potential gaps in coordinated vulnerability disclosure and response capabilities at the federal level, creating uncertainty around security threat intelligence and response coordination.

The VergeApril 22, 20262 min read

Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinator. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) didn't have access to Mythos Preview, which Anthropic has touted as a powerful tool for finding and patching security vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, other agencies like Commerce Department and National Security Agency (NSA) are reportedly using the model, and President Donald Trump's administration has been negotiating broader access, Axios wrote last w … Read the full story at The Verge.