Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an emergency meeting with CEOs of the five largest U.S. banks on April 7, 2026, urging them to test Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model against their own systems after the AI company revealed it could autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. The unusual government push to direct banks toward a single AI vendor raises questions about fair competition, regulatory neutrality, and the blurred line between cybersecurity preparedness and commercial favoritism — especially given that the same administration has simultaneously tried to blacklist Anthropic from federal contracts over a dispute about autonomous weapons.