[jimmar]

First of all, what "blacklist?" The article puts that in the title, but never explains anything about a blacklist.

> The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's most powerful model yet, Mythos Preview, despite top officials at the Department of Defense — which oversees the NSA — insisting the company is a "supply chain risk," two sources tell Axios.

I find the article confusing. My impression of the "supply chain risk" wasn't that Anthropic's products themselves were risky, but that the Department of Defense would be at risk if they could not use Anthropic's products. Like, of course the NSA wants to use it. They are fearful about not being able to use it.

[croes]

Anthropic has been designated a Supply Chain risk, the whole company.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

[jimmar]

I'm not disputing the designation.

Per the US Code [1]:

> The term "supply chain risk" means the risk that an adversary may sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert the design, integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of a covered system so as to surveil, deny, disrupt, or otherwise degrade the function, use, or operation of such system.

My reading of the situation is that the relevant parts of that statute would be the "distribution" or "operation" of their systems as to "deny" or "disrupt" the "operation of such system." I.e., the Pentagon is afraid that Anthropic won't let them use their stuff.

[1] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

[croes]

They are afraid that Anthropic‘s AI would refuse to do what they want it do because of some kind of moral inside the model.

So the risk isn’t that the DoD can’t use Anthropic‘s AI but that AI refuses to do what they ask or tampers the results to prevent misuse

[krisbolton]

They're referring to Pete Hegseth's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk back in early May.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/pentagon-tells-anth...