Anthropic CEO meets White House chief of staff to resolve Pentagon supply-chain blacklist over Mythos model

Analysis
Hegseth's absence from the meeting and Trump's on-record claim of ignorance read as a deliberate White House bypass of the Pentagon designation, signaling an intent to partition Anthropic's access: commercial and financial-sector use cases restored under Treasury imprimatur, military and domestic-surveillance use cases left under the existing blacklist. A commercial-track compromise is likely within 30–60 days. The sharper story is the Mythos inversion: the same frontier cyber capability the administration sought for offensive tooling is now being withheld by the lab for defensive purposes, flipping the standard export-control vocabulary in a direction the Pentagon has no established framework to handle. The watch item is whether any executive order materialises that differentiates between frontier labs on a safety-case basis, a framework Anthropic has pushed publicly and which would institutionalise the partition Friday's meeting was quietly negotiating.