Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell called bank executives to a meeting this week, where they encouraged managers to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to spot vulnerabilities. According to Bloomberg.
Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase is the only bank listed as one of the first partner institutions to have access to the model, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are also testing Mythos.
anthropic announced the model this week but said it would limit access for now, in part because Mythos — despite not being specifically trained in cybersecurity — is very good at finding security vulnerabilities. (Others have suggested that it is the hype or simply smart enterprise sales strategy.)
The report is particularly surprising because it is Anthropic is currently fighting the Trump administration in court Over the Ministry of Defense Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk; The appointment comes after talks collapsed over the company’s efforts to limit how its AI models could be used by the government.
Meanwhile, The Financial Times reported on this UK financial regulators are also discussing the risk posed by Mythos.
