White House OKs Anthropic deal with NSA
anthropic will likely keep supplying models to the nsa despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the pentagon.
anthropic continues ai work with us intelligence agencies through a white house-approved contract, circumventing the pentagon's designation of the company as a supply chain threat. intelligence agencies currently face a hardware shortage, preventing them from running larger models from competitors, while anthropic's mythos model functions on older chips. to secure approval, anthropic dropped the broad lawful use language and agreed to a clause prohibiting the model from processing americans' data. the white house views this contract as a template for future ai procurement, alongside a separate $9 billion request for new ai chips.