Anthropic Makes Peace With Trump: New Claude Mythos Model Targets Cybersecurity

Anthropic may be winning back the favor of the Trump administration, and the key appears to be a new specialized model, Claude Mythos Preview, aimed at cybersecurity tasks.

Over the past two months, relations between Anthropic and the White House have been extremely tense. The administration publicly called the company a "radical-left woke organization" populated by "left-wing weirdos" and described it as a threat to national security. The sharp escalation came in late February, when Anthropic refused to compromise on two matters of principle: the company declined to provide its technology for domestic mass surveillance and for building fully autonomous lethal weapons with no human in the decision-making chain.

That stance cost Anthropic its relationship with the Pentagon, a major consumer of AI solutions. Until then, the company's technology had been widely used in the public sector, and the break hurt both sides. Anthropic lost lucrative contracts, and government agencies lost access to one of the most powerful commercial AI stacks.

However, Claude Mythos Preview changes the picture. The model was developed under the internal name Project Glasswing and is focused specifically on cybersecurity: threat analysis, vulnerability detection and incident response. This is exactly the class of applications that does not conflict with Anthropic's ethical limits, yet directly serves the interests of the military and intelligence agencies.

According to sources close to the talks, the arrival of Mythos opens the way to restarting the dialogue between Anthropic and the US government. The company is showing willingness to cooperate where doing so does not cross its red lines, and cybersecurity turns out to be exactly such a point where interests overlap.

The story is notable because it shows that even amid political turbulence, pragmatism wins out over rhetoric. The administration, which attacked the company publicly, appears ready to return to the negotiating table as soon as a product that meets real government needs is on it. For Anthropic, it is a signal that upholding ethical principles and working with the state are not mutually exclusive, provided you choose the right place to apply your efforts.