TNB Tech Minute: White House Opposes Plan to Expand Access to Anthropic’s Mythos AI Model
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute, for Thursday, April 30th. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:37.2 | We exclusively report |
| 0:38.7 | the White House is opposing Anthropics plan to expand access to its powerful new AI model, |
| 0:43.8 | complicating the rollout of an AI tool capable of carrying out cyber attacks and sewing widespread |
| 0:48.5 | disruptions online. Anthropic recently proposed giving about 70 additional companies and organizations access to its new tool, called Mythos, |
| 0:57.0 | which would have brought the total number of entities with access to about 120. |
| 1:01.0 | That's according to people familiar with the matter. |
| 1:03.0 | But Trump administration officials have national security concerns about the move, |
| 1:07.0 | and are worried that Anthropic doesn't have enough computing power to serve that many more |
| 1:10.8 | entities without hampering the government's ability to use it. A White House official said the |
| 1:15.4 | administration is balancing innovation and security while cooperating with the private sector |
| 1:19.5 | to make sure AI models are rolled out safely. And several big tech companies reported their |
| 1:25.2 | latest earnings yesterday and detailed their plans to continue spending on AI. |
| 1:30.2 | Meta Platforms says its first quarter revenue increased 33%, its biggest year-over-year jump in almost five years. |
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