TechCrunch Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called senior executives from the nation’s largest banks to a closed‑door meeting this week, urging them to pilot Anthropic’s newly unveiled Mythos model for spotting security flaws. JPMorgan Chase is the first bank granted access, while Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are already testing the system. Anthropic says the model is not a dedicated cybersecurity tool but its ability to uncover vulnerabilities has drawn both interest and skepticism, especially as the company fights a Trump administration lawsuit over a DoD supply‑chain risk designation.
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