TechFlow News, April 10: According to foreign media reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Powell urgently convened a meeting with Wall Street leaders to discuss heightened cybersecurity risks potentially triggered by Anthropic’s latest AI model. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that Bessent and Powell held the meeting on Tuesday at the Treasury Department’s headquarters in Washington, aiming to ensure banks recognize the potential risks posed by Anthropic’s “Mythos” model—and similar models—and take preventive measures to safeguard their systems.
This emergency meeting underscores that regulators now regard the possibility of novel cyberattacks as one of the greatest risks facing the financial sector. All banks invited to attend were designated by top regulatory authorities as systemically important financial institutions—meaning their stability is critical to the global financial system. Anthropic’s Mythos is a significantly more powerful system; the company states that, upon user instruction, the model can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in virtually all major operating systems and web browsers. (Jinshi)
