Nathaniel Whittemore

But given that the whole point is allowing you to do more faster and better, UX upgrades that cement and simplify workflows can be significant unlocks for the people using them.

Speaking of anthropic, CEO Dario Amore met with key White House officials on Friday to talk through the cybersecurity implications of Mythos.

Among others, the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson were there.

In a statement, the White House called this a productive and constructive introductory meeting.

They released a very milquetoast generic kind of statement.

But given the hostile rhetoric towards Anthropic recently, many viewed this as the administration walking back hostilities in recognition that Anthropic's technology has big implications for national security.

Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon is still ongoing, and the State Department, Health and Human Services, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency have all terminated Anthropic contracts.

Of course, at the same time, over the weekend, Axios reported that the NSA is actively using the mythos preview model, despite their parent agency, the Department of Defense, insisting that Anthropic is a supply chain risk.

Axios writes, the government's cybersecurity needs appear to be outweighing the Pentagon's feud with Anthropic.

Adding more evidence to the idea that there may be a detente forming, President Donald Trump himself this morning said, they, Anthropic, came to the White House a few days ago and we had some very good talks with them and I think they're shaping up.

They're very smart.

I think we'll get along with them just fine.

Now, the administration's actions mirror a fairly significant response to mythos on Wall Street.

Central bank heads across the globe have put financial institutions on high alert, and the mythos preview has expanded to cover numerous other banks.

When it launched, the preview was only extended to JP Morgan, but around a dozen major banks across the US and the UK are now participating.

To be perfectly honest, the whole conversation feels a little bit like big institutions just waking up to the fact that models in general have gotten really good, as opposed to there being some massive leap with this one specifically.

But we did kind of get a preview this week of what a heightened pattern of security incidents might look like.

Two big ones were AI development platform Vercel disclosed a major security incident.

Describing the attack on Sunday, Vercel said that hackers had gained access to an employee's credentials through a third-party tool.

The hackers then accessed additional Vercel systems and exfiltrated user data.