Bessent and Powell Summon Bank CEOs to Urgent Meeting Over Anthropic Mythos AI Cyber Risks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street bank CEOs to an emergency meeting at Treasury HQ, warning that Anthropic's new Mythos model poses unprecedented cyber threats by autonomously exploiting vulnerabilities in major OSes and browsers. The ultra-capable model, accessible only via limited Project Glasswing to select firms like Amazon, Apple, and JPMorgan, has regulators fearing a new era of AI-driven attacks on financial infrastructure. Officials urged banks to bolster defenses amid escalating concerns over frontier AI's offensive potential.
Top US financial regulators treating a single AI model as a systemic threat marks a pivotal moment where frontier AI risks trigger immediate high-level intervention.