China may have accessed Mythos.

Instead, Sacks focused on a r …
Read the full story at The Verge. The government could also attempt to reverse engineer the model through distillation, a method in which a “student” AI is trained on a more advanced model to replicate its behavior. According to a new analysis from Semafor, the White House’s decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China.
The White House has not confirmed this analysis, and a post on X by Trump advisor David Sacks did not mention China. .