Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned financial institution executives for a gathering this week the place they inspired the executives to make use of Anthropic’s new Mythos mannequin to detect vulnerabilities, in accordance with Bloomberg.
Certainly, whereas JPMorgan Chase was the one financial institution listed as one of many preliminary associate organizations with entry to the mannequin, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Financial institution of America, and Morgan Stanley are reportedly testing Mythos as properly.
Anthropic introduced the mannequin this week however mentioned it will be limiting entry for now, partly as a result of Mythos — regardless of not being educated particularly for cybersecurity — is simply too good at discovering safety vulnerabilities. (Others recommended this was hype or just a wise enterprise gross sales technique.)
The report is especially shocking since Anthropic is at the moment battling the Trump administration in court docket over the Division of Protection’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain danger; that designation got here after negotiations fell aside over the corporate’s efforts to restrict how its AI fashions can be utilized by the federal government.
In the meantime, the Monetary Occasions reviews that U.Okay. monetary regulators are additionally discussing the danger posed by Mythos.
