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The AI that put the world's banking system on edge

On April 7, 2026, Anthropic unveiled “Mythos Preview,” a general-purpose AI model designed to push forward code generation, reasoning, and autonomous task completion. Nobody, least of all Anthropic itself, expected that its cybersecurity capabilities would be so devastating they’d prompt the US Treasury Secretary to convene an emergency meeting with the CEOs of the world’s largest banks.