Anthropic has recently attempted to get back in the US government’s good graces, at least in some capacity, with Mythos Preview. And judging from reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attended a meeting at the White House on Friday, it may be working. Anthropic confirmed the meeting on Friday. “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei today met with senior administration officials for a productive discussion on how Anthropic and the US government can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America’s lead in the AI race, and AI safety,” said Anthropic spokesperson Max Young. “The meeting reflected Anthropic’s ongoing commitment to engaging with the US government on the development of responsible AI. We are grateful for their time and are looking forward to continuing these discussions.”

Mythos Preview was announced with major fanfare about its capabilities — including the ability to find security issues in virtually every large web browser and operating system. Anthropic says the model is its most powerful yet, and it’s currently only available for private access. It’s being marketed as a way to flag high-stakes vulnerabilities in some of the most-used internet infrastructure we have, so that companies like Apple, Nvidia, and JPMorgan Chase — which have already signed on to use it — can plug them up before bad actors can exploit them. The release of Mythos Preview has already reportedly sparked emergency meetings between US bank leaders and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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The Trump administration, too, seems to be taking notice. In a release about Mythos Preview, Anthropic wrote that it had already been in “ongoing discussions with US government officials about Claude Mythos Preview and its offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.” Earlier this month, when The Verge asked for details, Dianne Penn, a head of product management at Anthropic, confirmed that the company had “briefed senior officials in the US government about Mythos and what it can do,” and that the company is still “committed to working closely with all different levels of government.” The company declined to specify who, exactly, had been briefed.