Trump Officials May Be Encouraging Banks To Test Anthropic’s Mythos Model

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned slope executives for a gathering this week wherever they encouraged nan executives to usage Anthropic’s caller Mythos exemplary to observe vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg. 

Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was nan only slope listed arsenic 1 of nan first partner organizations pinch entree to nan model, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are reportedly testing Mythos arsenic well.

Anthropic announced nan exemplary this week but said it would beryllium limiting entree for now, successful portion because Mythos — contempt not being trained specifically for cybersecurity — is excessively bully astatine uncovering information vulnerabilities. (Others suggested this was hype aliases simply a smart endeavor income strategy.)

The study is peculiarly astonishing since Anthropic is currently battling nan Trump management successful court complete nan Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic arsenic a supply-chain risk; that nickname came aft negotiations fell isolated complete Anthropic’s efforts to limit really its AI models tin beryllium utilized by nan government.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that U.K. financial regulators are besides discussing nan consequence posed by Mythos.

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