June 18 (Reuters) - Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic to test the Mythos AI model have preserved their access to a preview of the system, despite a U.S. government order that led to the total shutdown of other versions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The Claude maker had limited Mythos Preview to about 200 organizations, including the U.S. government, under its Glasswing program after the model identified thousands of software vulnerabilities.
A less powerful version of Mythos was publicly
released, and then disabled on Washington's export control directives to suspend access for all foreign nationals due to national security concerns.
Firms such as Dragos and Cisco Systems confirmed to Bloomberg News that they had retained access to Mythos Preview. It was not immediately clear how Anthropic was determining access to individual Glasswing members, the Bloomberg report added.
Anthropic, Cisco, and Dragos were not immediately available for comment outside business hours when contacted by Reuters.
European cybersecurity agency Enisa, which had been invited to join Glasswing ahead of the U.S. government's block, was informed on Friday it would no longer be given access, the report added.
Enisa was not immediately available for comment outside business hours when contacted by Reuters.
IPO-bound Anthropic's relationship with the government ruptured this year after it refused to allow the U.S. military to use its AI models for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems.
(Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman)
