CIA reshapes strategy around cybersecurity
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to "digital nuclear weapons," AFP reported.
"It would not be unreasonable, as I have suggested, to compare their capabilities to digital nuclear weapons," Ratcliffe said, referring to discussions on the subject with advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump.
Speaking at a conference hosted by AWS, Amazon's cloud computing division, the CIA chief accused America's adversaries of seeking "to steal and manipulate America's technological lead," CE Report quotes AGERPRES.
Ratcliffe also announced a reorganization of the CIA centered on cybersecurity, describing it as "a shield" designed to protect critical infrastructure.
On June 12, Washington required Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI company, to restrict access to two of its most powerful AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, by imposing export controls.
The move — the first time a government has forced the withdrawal of a leading AI model — was only partially reversed on Friday for Mythos, which is now available only to a limited group of U.S. partners. Fable 5, however, remains unavailable online.
On the same day, OpenAI, Anthropic's U.S.-based rival, released its GPT-5.6 model with highly restricted access, marking the first time the company agreed to allow the U.S. government to approve authorized partners on a client-by-client basis.
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