BitGo CEO Mike Belshy dismissed the widespread claim that Anthropic’s Mythos model hacked almost all of the NSA’s secret systems, calling the story false as it spread via X this weekend.
His response targets posts that reframe the three-day-old government shutdown as a real breakthrough. The full record is less dramatic.
Where did the Mythos NSA breach claim come from?
The allegation originated with Senator Mark Warner, Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Economist magazine published his account of what the director of the National Security Agency told him.
Gen. Joshua Rudd, who leads the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, described the tool in stark terms, Warner said.
“This tool penetrated almost all of our confidential systems, not in weeks, but in hours,” The Economist reported. books“, quoted by Warner.
Warner raised the example of praising humanity, not condemning it. He used it to advocate faster pre-deployment testing of parametric models.
The details that have been lost online are minor. This was an approved red team test on the agency’s own networks, not an external intrusion.
Shashank Joshi, the Economist editor who published the quote, later warned that it should not be read literally. It depends on Mythos working alongside other tools in certain circumstances, he said.
The US government was already a partner in the Mythos. Anthropic disseminated the model to government advocates online through Project Glass pavilion Since April.
Belschi and others question the framing
Belschi, co-founder and CEO of BitGo, a digital asset custodian, answered one thread candidly.
“I’m calling BS on this,” he said challenge.
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He wasn’t alone. Zach Corman He mocked How the allegation went from senator to journalist to social media unchecked.
Analyst Kyle Chase noted that the intrusion was a test. He said separate Jailbreak reported by Amazon It was the real trigger.
Special Anthropy statement Supports them. The reported jailbreak simply asks the model to read the code base and fix the flaws, she said.
This technology uncovered some small, already known bugs that competing models like OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 can also find.
The company discontinued both models on June 12 to meet a… US Export Control DirectivesAnd not because of any breakthrough on the battlefield. It objected to the recall of a model used by hundreds of millions of people because of one narrow flaw.
Whether the test justifies withdrawing the models remains controversial. Pedro Domingos, an artificial intelligence researcher, said export controls were responsible, given the model Powerful hacking capabilities.
Anthropology itself describes the Mythos as the most powerful electronic model in the world. However, the company says that recalling a tool due to a single flaw would lead to a freeze on new releases across the industry.
Company now Work to restore accessIt is drafting a shared risk framework with the White House.
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