NSA plans to introduce Anthropic top secret new model, White House approves $9 billion budget to break computing power drought According to Beating monitoring, the White House has secretly approved a $9 billion classified budget request from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to purchase Nvidia's top chip Grace Blackwell to build AI hardware infrastructure that supports national security levels. Due to insufficient budget allocation in the past, as well as the high physical isolation and security requirements between the Miyun network and the external network, the construction of confidential computing infrastructure for intelligence agencies is seriously lagging behind. The White House has specially approved this massive budget and allowed for a $800 million rearrangement of funds, aimed at addressing the hardware shortage crisis and ensuring the smooth operation of the latest large-scale models in the future. To address the current computing bottleneck and software gap, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles authorized the NSA to bypass the Pentagon's supply chain restrictions and continue purchasing the latest model, Mythos, developed by large model manufacturer Anthropic. Mythos completed training in April 2026 and possesses strong advanced network security attack and defense capabilities. It can detect and weaponize vulnerabilities, and is therefore restricted from public release. Due to Mythos' high operational efficiency and compatibility with previous generation chips, this procurement allows intelligence agencies to deploy directly on existing confidential servers, avoiding the time difference of building a new chip room and easily obtaining urgently needed top-level network security capabilities. The NSA is currently in negotiations with Anthropic to finalize a new contract. Both sides have been deadlocked due to permission issues. The Ministry of National Defense once required manufacturers to sign mandatory agreements that could be used for any legal purpose by the military, resulting in the suspension of cooperation. Given that intelligence agencies are prohibited by law from monitoring their own citizens, the new contract intends to remove the "any lawful use" clause and instead use dedicated exemption restrictions to ensure that Mythos will never be used to analyze or monitor data of US citizens. The intelligence department hopes that the new contract can serve as a template to promote similar confidential computing power cooperation with OpenAI in the future. [Original link]