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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model, has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and browsers, prompting the Federal Reserve chair and Treasury secretary to convene an emergency meeting with bank CEOs to discuss the cyber risks. The company warns of a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries replicate the capability. Read more

The Bank of England’s Cross‑Market Operational Resilience Group will convene senior executives from the nation’s largest banks, insurers and financial exchanges within days to discuss Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview. Regulators say the AI model can autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities across operating systems and browsers, prompting emergency meetings in the United States and Canada. British officials aim to assess the cybersecurity implications for the country’s financial system ahead of a planned rollout to UK institutions next week. Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called senior executives from the nation’s largest banks to a closed‑door meeting this week, urging them to pilot Anthropic’s newly unveiled Mythos model for spotting security flaws. JPMorgan Chase is the first bank granted access, while Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are already testing the system. Anthropic says the model is not a dedicated cybersecurity tool but its ability to uncover vulnerabilities has drawn both interest and skepticism, especially as the company fights a Trump administration lawsuit over a DoD supply‑chain risk designation. Read more