Federal agencies and government officials are quietly sidestepping U.S. ?President Donald Trump’s ban on working with ?Anthropic, Politico reports. The Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation is actively testing Anthropic’s frontier ?AI model Mythos’ hacking prowess, the ?report says. Earlier this year, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology after the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, took a firm stance against allowing the Pentagon to deploy its models in autonomous lethal attacks or mass surveillance operations.
