Investing.com — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell met with leaders of major American banks earlier this week to discuss cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model, several reports showed on Thursday.
The meeting included executives from , , , and , who were already in Washington for a banking lobby group meeting. was invited but could not attend, reports from Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and Reuters showed.
The news was first reported by Bloomberg on Thursday evening.
The gathering centered on concerns about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview model and its advanced ability to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors.
Anthropic released the model to a select group of partners earlier this week, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, to give them a head start on securing vulnerabilities. This marked the first time Anthropic had limited the launch of a new model.
Antropic described Mythos as a general purpose model with capabilities extending beyond cybersecurity.
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