In the room were Citigroup’s Jane Fraser, Morgan Stanley’s Ted Pick, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan, Wells Fargo’s Charlie Scharf and Goldman Sachs’s David Solomon, Bloomberg reports (2). JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon was unable to attend.
All the banks represented are classified (3) as globally systemically important, meaning a breach of any one of them could send shockwaves through the international financial system.
Anthropic’s Mythos and how it’s different
Mythos is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model to date, released April 7 to a tightly controlled group (4) of technology and finance firms rather than the general public.
While it wasn’t designed specifically for hacking, its advanced coding and reasoning capabilities have given it something far more alarming: the ability (5) to find and exploit software vulnerabilities that human security researchers missed for decades.
According to Anthropic’s security team (6), Mythos has already identified thousands of previously unknown, aka “zero-day,” vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser.
Among the discoveries: a flaw in OpenBSD — widely regarded (7) as one of the most secure operating systems available — that had gone undetected for 27 years, and a bug in the video processor FFmpeg that survived five million automated security tests without being caught, per Quartz (8).
What makes Mythos especially worrying to regulators is not just that it can find these flaws, but that it can link multiple vulnerabilities together autonomously to construct working exploits (9).