AI NewsTrump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

5:51 AM IST · April 13, 2026

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities,according to Bloomberg. Indeed, while JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the initial partner organizations with access to the model, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are reportedly testing Mythos as well. Anthropicannounced the model this weekbut said it would be limiting access for now, in part because Mythos — despite not being trained specifically for cybersecurity — is too good at finding security vulnerabilities. (Others suggested this washypeor simplya smart enterprise sales strategy.) The report is particularly surprising since Anthropic iscurrently battling the Trump administration in courtover the Department of Defense’sdesignation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk; that designation came after negotiations fell apart over the company’s efforts to limit how its AI models can be used by the government. Meanwhile,the Financial Times reportsthat U.K. financial regulators are also discussing the risk posed by Mythos.