Anthropic’s Mythos Is a Wake-up Call For Everyone, Not Just Banks

Mythos, a new artificial intelligence model that Anthropic PBC has teased as too dangerous to release, looked at first like a problem for banks. Days after the company announced the new technology, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent summoned Wall Street leaders to make sure they were taking precautions to defend their systems, creating invaluable publicity for Anthropic and raising questions about who gets an exclusive peek at its threatening progeny.