TNB Tech Minute: White House Opposes Plan to Expand Access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI Model

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[tech music] Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, April thirtieth. I'm Danny Lewis for The Wall Street Journal. We exclusively report the White House is opposing Anthropic's plan to expand access to its powerful new AI model, complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyberattacks and sowing widespread disruptions online. Anthropic recently proposed giving about seventy additional companies and organizations access to its new tool, called Mythos, which would have brought the total number of entities with access to about one hundred and twenty. That's according to people familiar with the matter. But Trump administration officials have national security concerns about the move and are worried that Anthropic doesn't have enough computing power to serve that many more entities without hampering the government's ability to use it. A White House official said the administration is balancing innovation and security while cooperating with the private sector to make sure AI models are rolled out safely. And several big tech companies reported their latest earnings yesterday and detailed their plans to continue spending