NSA

According to Anthropic, Claude worked out in under 30 minutes how the NSA generated the seeds behind several NIST-standardized elliptic curves. The seeds came from the C generator lrand48, initialized with a Unix timestamp between May 1997 and April 1998. Anthropic is donating the $36,864 bounty to the Internet Security Research Group.

The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Mythos Preview, an unreleased cybersecurity model limited to roughly 40 organizations, according to Axios. The deployment comes weeks after the Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" following the company's refusal to grant Pentagon officials unrestricted access to its models.