Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model

The US government is gearing up to put Anthropic's latest AI model, Mythos, into the hands of federal agencies. A White House memo sent to Cabinet departments confirms that the Office of Management and Budget is establishing protective guardrails to greenlight adoption across government.

The move signals a significant step in bringing cutting-edge commercial AI into the federal apparatus. OMB's role here is essentially building the safety framework — the bureaucratic scaffolding that lets agencies actually deploy the thing without running afoul of security and compliance requirements.

Anthropic's Mythos is described as a powerful new model, and the government apparently wants in. The memo went out to Cabinet-level departments, suggesting broad deployment ambitions rather than a narrow pilot.

No word yet on specific use cases or which agencies will move first.