Anthropic cleared to release Mythos AI to 100 US firms

Anthropic says the US government has allowed it to release its powerful Claude Mythos 5 artificial intelligence model to some “trusted” US organisations. More than 100 companies and institutions will now have access to Mythos 5, including many Fortune 500 companies, a source familiar with the new directive said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. Concern that powerful AI systems could be misused by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern has prompted President Donald Trump’s administration to take an aggressive approach to oversight of releases of Anthropic’s and rival OpenAI’s…