Jack Clark, Anthropic’s co-founder and head of public benefit, confirmed the company briefed the Trump administration on its withheld Mythos model due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities. He downplayed the Pentagon’s “supply-chain risk” label while defending continued government engagement and also discussed AI’s potential impact on jobs and higher education.

• Anthropic confirmed it briefed the Trump administration on Mythos, an unreleased AI model withheld due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, and will keep briefing officials on future models.
• Trump officials reportedly pushed major banks (JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley) to test Mythos, which Clark confirmed.
• Anthropic is simultaneously suing the DOD over a "supply-chain risk" label tied to a contract for mass surveillance/autonomous weapons work that OpenAI won, which Clark calls a narrow contracting dispute rather than a sign of broken government ties.
• Clark downplayed CEO Dario Amodei's warnings of Depression-era job losses from AI, citing only early signs of weak graduate employment in a few industries.