Mythos AI Sparks Fear and Confusion Among Global Finance Elite

The ability of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to uncover cyber vulnerabilities has the government and institutions worried, with a limited group of firms testing the model internally. Source: Bloomberg

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By Laura Noonan, Colum Murphy and Jorge Valero

April 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM UTC

War and an historic energy shock are tough financial stability risks to compete with.

Yet Anthropic’s as-yet unreleased AI model Mythos added a layer of dread to conversations among policymakers gathered in Washington at two institutions created eight decades ago to help foster global economic harmony.