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

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell called bank executives to a meeting this week, where they encouraged executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities. according to Bloomberg.

While JPMorgan Chase was the only bank listed as one of the original partner organizations with access to the model, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are also reportedly testing Mythos.

Anthropic announced the model this week, but said it would limit access for now, in part because Mythos — despite not being specifically trained for cybersecurity — is too good at finding security vulnerabilities. (Others suggested it was hype or just a smart enterprise sales strategy.)

The report is especially surprising because Anthropic is currently battling the Trump administration in court over the Defense Department’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk; that designation came after negotiations collapsed over the company’s efforts to limit how its AI models can be used by the government.

In the meantime, reports the Financial Times that British financial regulators are also discussing the risk of Mythos.