Anthropic · Fortune Technology
The AI that surfaced 27-year-old flaws no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns over a greater cybersecurity risk.
Key facts
- Aside from its partners, the company has extended access to 40 additional organizations who build or deploy critical software infrastructure, and committed up to $100 million in Mythos Preview usage
- Sources who spoke to those in attendance included Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf, and Goldman Sachs CEO
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders on Tuesday in an emergency meeting about Anthropic’s latest AI model, flagging concerns
- As part of Project Glasswing, JPMorgan aims to reduce cyber risks stemming from AI’s fast-evolving capabilities
Summary
Bessent and Powell assembled the group of high-powered execs at the Treasury’s headquarters to ensure banks were aware of the cyber risks presented by Anthropic’s new model, Mythos, and similar future models, reported Bloomberg and the Financial Times. The meeting comes weeks after Fortune exclusively reported Anthropic was developing an unreleased model described by the company as “by far the most powerful AI model” it had ever developed, the existence of which Anthropic inadvertently made public last month through its content management system.
Anthropic briefed senior U.S. government officials and industry stakeholders on Mythos Preview’s capabilities ahead of its release, someone with knowledge of the matter told Fortune.