Anthropic model sparks urgent talks
Senior U.S. financial and regulatory officials held an urgent meeting after reports that Anthropic’s latest model raised serious cybersecurity concerns. The discussion reportedly brought together Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Wall Street leaders to assess risks tied to the model’s behaviour and deployments. (x.com/business/status/2042407370320396457)
Top United States financial officials and Wall Street bank chiefs held an urgent Washington meeting this week after Anthropic’s newest model raised cyber-risk alarms. (finance.yahoo.com) Reuters reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened the session on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the Treasury Department. Bloomberg and CBS said the invited banks included Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, while JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon was invited but did not attend. (finance.yahoo.com) (bloomberg.com) (cbsnews.com) The trigger was Anthropic’s limited release of Claude Mythos Preview on Tuesday, April 8, 2026, alongside Project Glasswing, a security program with companies including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and JPMorganChase. Anthropic said it is extending access to more than 40 additional organizations and committing up to $100 million in usage credits plus $4 million in donations to open-source security groups. (anthropic.com) Anthropic says Mythos Preview can find and exploit software flaws at a level beyond most human experts. The company said the model has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including flaws in every major operating system and web browser. (anthropic.com) (cbsnews.com) A software vulnerability is a hidden defect in code, like a weak lock in a building door. Anthropic’s claim is that this model can spot those weak locks — and also show how an intruder could force them open — which is why the company withheld a broad public release. (anthropic.com) (nbcnews.com) Banks and regulators treat cyberattacks as a financial-stability problem because a successful breach can freeze payments, expose customer data or shut down core systems. Bloomberg reported that all the banks called to the meeting are considered systemically important, meaning disruptions at one can spread across the broader financial system. (bloomberg.com) The White House confirmed the meeting after the fact. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Fox News that Bessent brought the bankers to Treasury with Powell to review the risks, and a Treasury spokesman told CBS that more coordination meetings with regulators and institutions are planned. (finance.yahoo.com) (cbsnews.com) Anthropic has framed the model as both a threat and a defensive tool. NBC reported that some outside experts urged caution because the company has not publicly detailed the vulnerabilities it found, while cybersecurity researcher Katie Moussouris told the network the concern is “very much real.” (nbcnews.com) The immediate result is not a public shutdown order or a formal rule. It is a closed-door push by Treasury, the Federal Reserve and major banks to prepare for a class of artificial intelligence systems that Anthropic itself says could change how cyberattacks are found and carried out. (finance.yahoo.com) (anthropic.com)
