On April 10, 2026, reports from Bloomberg, Cailian Press, and other sources indicated that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell held an urgent meeting with Wall Street executives. The focus of the discussion was the cybersecurity threats presented by Anthropic’s newly launched AI model, Mythos, as well as other potential similar models. The primary objective of the meeting was to ensure that financial institutions are fully cognizant of the potential risks these models may introduce in the future and to encourage them to implement proactive measures to safeguard system security. Notably, during its testing phase, the Mythos model has already pinpointed thousands of high-risk vulnerabilities in widely used operating systems and browsers. Moreover, it has demonstrated the ability to autonomously construct intricate attack chains to bypass security barriers, a capability that has prompted security alerts at the governmental level.
