Bessent, Powell summon Wall Street CEOs for emergency meeting over Anthropic AI risks amid Pentagon dispute
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street bank heads to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for a flash meeting to warn them of cybersecurity threats...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street bank heads to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday for a flash meeting to warn them of cybersecurity threats posed by AI giant Anthropic, according to a Thursday night report from Bloomberg. Bessent and Powell convened the last-minute meeting at Treasury's D.C. headquarters in order to ensure the banks were ready to guard against risks from Anthropic's latest model, Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful new AI model that experts warn marks a profound shift in the technology. Each bank summoned is marked by the Fed as "structurally important" to the global financial system. The attendees included chief executives from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was in attendance, a source with knowledge of his schedule told Fox News Digital. Spokespeople for Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo declined to comment. Citigroup and Morgan Stanley did not immediately respond to requests for comment. PENTAGON’S AI BATTLE WILL HELP DECIDE WHO CONTROLS OUR MOST POWERFUL MILITARY TECH JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was also summoned but was unable to attend, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar. JPMorgan, notably, is a member of Anthropic's "Project Glasswing," an initiative to use Mythos as a defense against future similar models. JPMorgan did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mythos has garnered a swell of intrigue online thanks to Anthropic's claims that the AI can autonomously identify and exploit software weaknesses. The company touted Mythos as a "frontier model" that can outperform "all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities." It claimed the model has already identified thousands of software flaws previously unknown to their developers, including some that were decades old inside companies widely considered to be security strongholds. "This could make cyberattacks of…