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Federal agencies quietly sidestep the ban to get the blacklisted model

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Federal agencies are quietly sidestepping the White House ban on Anthropic to test Claude Mythos for cyber defense, with even the Treasury Department maneuvering for access.

Reporting date: 2026-04-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 16, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Banks red-team a frontier model at the urging of the Treasury and the Fed

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Federal agencies quietly sidestep the ban to get the blacklisted model
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-16-agencies-sidestep-the-ban
Claim: Federal agencies are quietly sidestepping the White House ban on Anthropic to test Claude Mythos for cyber defense, with even the Treasury Department maneuvering for access.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to April 16, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-16-2026
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