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What stops the US from using this technology to destabilize their enemies?

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The Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair just called an emergency meeting with the CEOs of America's six largest banks over the cyber risks posed by Anthropic's Mythos AI model.

Bessent and Powell summoned the heads of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs to the Treasury building on Tuesday, arranged on short notice and previously unreported. All are classified as systemically important financial institutions. JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon couldn't attend but JPMorgan is already among Anthropic's 12 launch partners.

The model is Anthropic's Mythos. During testing, it autonomously identified and exploited vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. It found thousands of zero-day flaws, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a vulnerability in FFmpeg that had survived five million passes by automated testing tools. None of this required specialized cybersecurity training. The capability emerged from general advances in coding and reasoning.

Powell's presence is the signal. This isn't a policy meeting. It's being treated as systemic risk. Having both the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair in the room together on an AI cybersecurity briefing is without recent precedent.

Anthropic has restricted Mythos to roughly 40 companies through Project Glasswing, backed by up to $100 million in usage credits for defensive security work. Partners include Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Cisco, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks. The goal is to harden critical infrastructure before comparable models emerge from other labs.

As we covered earlier this week, a security researcher has argued that some of Mythos's headline numbers are overstated. But the fact that the two most powerful financial officials in the country are convening emergency meetings with bank CEOs suggests the government's threat assessment goes beyond the public marketing.