European Regulators Sidelined on Anthropic's Mythos Rollout
What Happened
Anthropic provided Mythos testing access to the UK's AI Safety Institute but left broader European regulatory agencies out of early discussions. Germany's BSI President Claudia Plattner confirmed her agency is in contact with Anthropic and taking the announcements "very seriously." The Bank of England is planning high-level discussions within two weeks involving the Treasury, FCA, and National Cyber Security Centre. The European Commission said it welcomes the staged rollout approach.
My Take
Anthropic chose the US government and Wall Street as its first partners, not European regulators — and that tells you where the company sees both power and revenue. Europe's response is predictable: concern statements, calls for sovereignty, eventual accommodation. But the deeper issue is that a private company decided which governments get access to a model with offensive cyber capability. That is a foreign policy decision dressed as a product launch. European governments will push for mandatory pre-release regulatory access to frontier models within the next legislative cycle.
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