Why Anthropic's Mythos model has Washington and Wall Street worked up

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · Apr 14, 2026 · 306 words · By Pascale Davies

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Anthropic's most powerful new AI model, Mythos, is too dangerous to release to the public, the company says, sparking urgent discussions with governments and financial regulators.

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What happened

Anthropic's most powerful new AI model, Mythos, is too dangerous to release to the public, the company says, sparking urgent discussions with governments and financial regulators.

Why it matters

Anthropic is in discussions with the US government over its new Mythos AI model, which the company has said is too powerful to release to the public as it "poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks".

Common ground

The banking industry is also sounding the alarm.

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Claim 1: “‘The government has to know about this stuff,’ Anthropic’s co-founder said on Monday at the Semafor World Economy event in Washington”

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Claim 2: “On Monday, the United Kingdom’s government AI Security Institute (AISI) issued a warning that Mythos was a 'step up' over previous models in terms of the cyber threat it posed”

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Claim 3: “Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are reportedly testing the Anthropic model too, Bloomberg reported”

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Claim 4: “Referencing the public dispute with the government, which led to the company being labelled a supply-chain risk last month, he said, 'I don't want that to get in the way of the fact that we care deeply about national security.'”

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Wikipedia entries do not mention supply-chain risk designation or negotiations with the US defense department.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic was founded in 2021 b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mistral AI SAS (French: [mistʁal]) is a French artificial intelligence (AI) company, headquartered in Paris. Founded in 2023, it has open-weight large language models (LLMs), with both open-source and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_AI

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Claim 5: “Anthropic also said it would limit the release of its new AI model to a few tech and cybersecurity firms. The list includes Amazon, Apple and JP Morgan Chase”

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Claim 6: “The move comes after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent convened a meeting of senior American bankers in Washington to discuss the Mythos model last week”

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Claim 7: “The supply-chain risk designation followed the collapse of negotiations over Anthropic's efforts to limit how the US defense department can use its AI models”

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Wikipedia entries do not mention supply-chain risk designation or negotiations with the US defense department.

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Claim 8: “Anthropic is in discussions with the US government over its new Mythos AI model, which the company has said is too powerful to release to the public as it 'poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks'”

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Three web sources independently report discussions between Anthropic and the US government regarding cybersecurity risks of Mythos.

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Claim 9: “The meeting encouraged the banking executive to use Antropic’s Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg”

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Claim 10: “‘Absolutely, we're talking to them about Mythos, and we'll talk to them about the next models as well,' he added”

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Claim 11: “The banking industry is also sounding the alarm”

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Three web sources indicate the banking industry is expressing concerns about Mythos' cybersecurity implications.

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web search NEUTRAL — In an unusual move, the Treasury secretary and the Federal Reserve chair gathered bank executives to caution about cyberthreats posed by artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/business/anthropic-claude…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic'sMythos, a new AI model the company and cybersecurity experts warn could supercharge complex cyberattacks, poses significant challenges to thebankingindustrywith its legacy ...
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ai-boosted-hacks-wi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic rolled out the newMythosAI model to a select group of companies overconcernsthat hackers could exploit its capabilities.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/powell-bessent-us-bank-ceos-…

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Claim 12: “Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that the UK financial regulators are also discussing Mythos’ potential risks”

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Claim 13: “Anthropic's most powerful new AI model, Mythos, is too dangerous to release to the public, the company says”

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Multiple independent web sources confirm Anthropic's assertion that Mythos poses cybersecurity risks and is too dangerous for public release.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropicsays its newest AI model, ClaudeMythos,istoopowerful anddangeroustobereleasedtothepublic.
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web search NEUTRAL — This weekAnthropic, a leading AI company in San Francisco, announced “ClaudeMythosPreview”, an AI model that the startup saysistoodangeroustopubliclyrelease, thanks to its exceptional cybersecurity – …
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/10/anthropic…

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web search NEUTRAL — 7 ReasonsAnthropicSays ClaudeMythosIsTooDangerousforPublicReleaseIt broke out of its sandbox. It found decades-old vulnerabilities in every major operating system. It appeared to game its …
https://medium.com/@isaacritharson/7-reasons-anthropic-says-…

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