China is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be wielded against the world’s second-biggest economy, adding a volatile new issue to already-heightened tensions before a planned summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. Officials in Beijing are concerned about the cyber capabilities of Mythos and other artificial intelligence frontier models developed by U.S. companies, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. They see the potential for models such as Mythos to be used as an offensive weapon, and question why Anthropic is denying China access to the systems for normal purposes, the people said.

Full report : Beijing is growing concerned about the cyber capabilities of Mythos and other US-developed frontier AI models and their potential as offensive weapons.