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| Trump summons bank leaders over terrifying new threat to global financial system: Anthropic AI |
| 2026-04-10 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Trump administration has summoned America's most powerful bank chiefs to an urgent closed-door meeting over an AI model its makers warn could bring down a blue-chip company or breach national defense firewalls. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell convened the session at Treasury headquarters in Washington, DC on Tuesday to address Mythos, a new model from AI giant Anthropic. Anthropic had announced Mythos the same day, revealing that the model surprised coders by hacking into the company's own networks during internal testing. The meeting was called at short notice for banks classified as systemically important, whose stability is considered vital to the global financial system, Bloomberg reported. Among the bosses summoned were Citigroup's Jane Fraser, Morgan Stanley's Ted Pick, Bank of America's Brian Moynihan, Wells Fargo's Charlie Scharf and Goldman Sachs's David Solomon. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan was unable to attend. Only around 40 carefully vetted firms have been granted access to Mythos, which arrives off the back of Anthropic's Claude Code, the tool that sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy with its ability to generate entire programs from a single line of text. The Pentagon is already a customer, having deployed Anthropic's earlier models in the operation to seize Nicolas Maduro and during the Iran conflict. Anthropic said it had held discussions with US officials ahead of the release about Mythos and its 'offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.' The Treasury has been contacted for comment; the Fed declined to comment. Anthropic is separately locked in a legal battle with the Trump administration after a federal appeals court this week rejected its bid to pause the Pentagon's designation of the company as a supply-chain risk. The fallout stems from Anthropic's refusal to let the Pentagon strip safety limits from its models, particularly around autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. The AI giant released a chilling analysis of Mythos this week as it admitted the new model could easily hack into hospitals, electrical grids, power plants, and other pieces of critical infrastructure. During testing, Anthropic says that Mythos 'found thousands of high–severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.' Some of these security weaknesses had gone unnoticed by human security researchers and hackers for decades, surviving millions of automated reviews. These included attacks that allowed Mythos to crash computers just by connecting to them, seize control of machines, and hide its presence from defenders. In a blog post detailing the dangerous new model, Anthropic says: 'AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities.' Related: Anthropic 04/09/2026 Anthropic's ‘Claude Mythos' model sparks fear of AI doomsday if released to public: ‘Weapons we can't even envision' Anthropic 04/09/2026 US court declines to block Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting for now Anthropic 04/06/2026 Palantir UK boss says it's up to militaries to decide how AI targeting is used in war |
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