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In March, Anthropic's Claude Mythos model gained superhuman hacking capabilities on par with the NSA and Mossad. The Trump administration subsequently issued an export control shutting down access to its sister model, Claude Fable, within ninety minutes.
Krystal and Saagar point to Milo Yiannopoulos's deportation, engineered by Laura Loomer, as evidence of her immense gatekeeping power. Loomer has successfully blocked White House appointments, got personnel fired from the NSA, and secured exclusive administration scoops.
Mark Warner claimed that an Anthropic model broke into classified systems within hours. Reporter Shashank Joshi clarified this occurred during an NSA red team exercise under highly controlled conditions, rather than being an actual adversarial breach.
Peter Weildford argued the reported NSA system breach was likely a simulated test against replica environments using pre-provided architecture documentation. He noted that actual classified military networks are physically air-gapped from the internet.
Gregory Allen claims the frontier AI model Mythos autonomously breached the NSA's secure servers within hours. This incident prompted the CIA director to classify the system as a digital nuclear weapon.
Glenn Greenwald notes that whistleblower disclosures revealed the National Security Agency sought a ubiquitous surveillance apparatus monitoring all citizens. The agency routinely shares raw intelligence on American citizens with foreign governments, including Israel.
The signed Trump executive order makes AI safety testing voluntary, explicitly disclaims any mandatory licensing or pre-clearance regime, and assigns primary model testing responsibility to the NSA. It also creates a Treasury-run cybersecurity clearinghouse.
The US government, including the Commerce Department, White House, and NSA, is reportedly exploring ways to limit access to foreign open-source AI models like Kimmy K3 and GLM 5.2, citing cyber security and AI supremacy concerns.
Jeff Larson filed a Privacy Act request with the NSA to see his phone metadata after the Verizon monitoring story broke; the agency replied he could not acknowledge the existence or non-existence of records.
Whittemore says David Sacks intervened to stop the initial signing, and the NSA is assigned primary responsibility for testing under the order with support from cyber and defense agencies.
Lockwood recounts a torpedo strike that killed 34 Americans, including NSA linguists and Marines. He describes a 40-foot hull breach and his own rescue efforts in oil-filled, flooding compartments.
Waltz argues the chaotic early network - with crashes, bugs, and minimal participants - debunks theories that Bitcoin was an NSA project, pointing to an organic, amateur launch.
Nathaniel Whittemore reports that Senator Mark Warner conveyed an NSA finding that Mythos demonstrated significant capabilities during a red teaming exercise, which some initially misinterpreted as the AI breaking into classified systems.
Nathaniel Whittemore cautions that a June Economist report about Mythos breaking into classified NSA systems was misread; reporter Shashank Joshi clarified NSA Director Joshua Rudd's quote referred to a controlled red team exercise with specific tools.
The Economist reported that Senator Mark Warner claimed NSA Director General Joshua Rudd told him Mythos broke into almost all classified U.S. systems in hours, not weeks, on June 11, the same day Amazon reported the jailbreak that led to the Fable 5 ban.
Senator Mark Warner, citing NSA chief General Joshua Brudd, said Mythos AI broke into almost all U.S. classified systems not in weeks, but in hours.