REPORT: AI Giant Resisted CCP Infiltration As US Extends Tech Lead Over China

AI giant Anthropic rebuffed an attempt from a Chinese think tank to gain access to its newest AI model, Claude Mythos, during a private meeting in Singapore, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

Anthropic unveiled Mythos in April, but has limited its release to around 40 American companies, which include Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, over concerns that it is so powerful it could threaten national security systems and potentially disable companies that use it. During the April meeting organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a representative from a Chinese think tank asked Anthropic officials to loosen their stance and give Beijing access to the AI model, The New York Times reported. (RELATED: Powerful AI Model Broke Out Of Its Digital Cage And Bragged About It To Researcher As He Ate Sandwich)

The request was not an official ask from the Chinese government, The Times reported, but Trump administration officials at the National Security Council were nevertheless alarmed. Some officials saw it as a daunting sign that Beijing will try to infiltrate American companies by any means possible to gain access to new and powerful AI models, according to the report.

This photograph shows a figurine in front of the logo of the AI assistant “Claude” built by the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic during a photo session in Paris on February 13, 2026. (Photo by Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)

China is meanwhile scrambling to build out an AI model as powerful as Claude that is focused on cyber defense and can compete with American products, according to a report from the South China Morning Post.

“Our assessment is that China’s own Mythos will definitely emerge, though currently the overall capabilities of its cybersecurity models are far from those of Mythos,” Austin Zhao, senior research manager at International Data Corporation (IDC) China, told the outlet. “But the overall trend is inevitable because the capabilities of China’s models are also rapidly increasing.”

IDC estimated that China’s AI cybersecurity industry would balloon in value by 2030, increasing from 1.58 billion yuan in 2025 to 59.35 billion yuan (US$8.7 billion), the South China Morning Post reported.

Dario Amodei (R), co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence safety and research company, takes part in a debate at the Vivatech technology start-ups and innovation fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on May 22, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP) (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

During a meeting with German lawmakers earlier in May, Germany’s top cybersecurity official, Claudia Plattner, warned that Chinese tech companies were beginning to go dark to develop a model like Mythos that has “superhacking” abilities. OpenAI, an AI company founded by Sam Altman, has also unveiled a new, powerful model similar to Mythos, GPT-5.5-Cyber. European officials worry that they are falling behind in what is shaping up to be a two-man race between the U.S. and China, and are pressuring Anthropic to give regulators access to the Mythos model.

In January, the Department of War (DOW) said in a memo that it would only contract with AI companies that agreed to “any lawful use” and would be willing to remove safeguards involving surveillance and the development of autonomous weapons. The memo led to a clash between the Pentagon and Anthropic, which refused to accept the terms. The company warned in February that “in a narrow set of cases,” the U.S. government could abuse it for domestic surveillance and that without proper guardrails, fully autonomous AI weapons might be unsafe. (RELATED: Americans Concerned About Individual Liberty May Wish They Listened To AI Giant’s Warnings)

The Pentagon responded by blacklisting Anthropic and labeling it a “supply chain risk,” a designation typically reserved for foreign companies that threaten U.S. national security. Anthropic sued the Pentagon in March to reverse the blacklisting.

The Chicoms will steal anything not nailed down. I firmly believe we should not accept any of their foreign "students" to attend colleges and universities in the US.

As companies and particularly Federal agencies become more dependent upon these systems, it will become increasingly important to prepare to execute a way to back out of them quickly and still stay alive.

With the Chinese Communist Party stole the plans for the F-35 many years and built the what was it the J-20 all the got was the body of the F-35 but they never got the software and the software updates constantly so they’ll never get

Anthropic unveiled Mythos in April, but has limited its release to around 40 American companies,

Somewhere in those 40 companies, Chinese and Indian programmers are salivating for a chance to get their hands on Mythos.

4 posted on 05/13/2026 1:45:25 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")

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