Anthropic’s Mythos is setting off global alarms!

The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.”  The April 22, 2026 article entitled " Anthropic’s New A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html) included the comments from Reporters Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano:

When Anthropic told the world this month that it had built an artificial intelligence model so powerful that it was too dangerous to release widely, the company named 11 organizations as partners to help mount a defense.

All were from the United States.

Within two weeks, the model, called Mythos, had set off a global scramble unlike anything yet seen in the A.I. era. Mythos, which Anthropic has said is uncannily capable of finding and exploiting hidden flaws in the software that runs the world’s banks, power grids and governments, had become a geopolitical chip — and a U.S. company held it.

World leaders have struggled to figure out the scale of the security risks and how to fix them, with Anthropic sharing Mythos with only Britain outside the United States. The Bank of England governor warned publicly that Anthropic may have found a way to “crack the whole cyber-risk world open.” The European Central Bank began quietly questioning banks about their defenses. Canada’s finance minister compared the threat to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

For U.S. rivals like China and Russia, Mythos underscored the security consequences of falling behind in the A.I. race. One Russian pro-Kremlin outlet called the model “worse than a nuclear bomb.”

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