White House overrules Pentagon to keep Anthropic's Mythos on NSA classified networks
Susie Wiles personally overruled the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation of Anthropic, preserving the NSA's Claude Mythos contract on classified networks — Mythos runs on the agency's existing hardware while competing frontier models require Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips the NSA doesn't have. The finalized contract bars Mythos from processing Americans' data and removes a previously contested 'any lawful use' clause. The White House separately approved a $9 billion emergency chip procurement pending congressional approval, treating the hardware gap as a national-security deficit.
Source: the-decoder.com ↗
Intelligence agencies don't have enough of Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips to run current models from OpenAI and others.
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Why this matters
- → NSA keeps Claude access despite Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation, preventing operational disruption on classified networks.
- → Mythos runs on existing hardware while competitors need Nvidia chips the agency lacks, making it the only short-term solution.
- → White House approval signals willingness to override security concerns when operational needs take priority.
Politics trumps security