Anthropic's Mythos AI is sending U.S. banks rushing to patch thousands of security holes

Large lenders with access to the model are finding hundreds to thousands of weaknesses in their systems and sharing findings with smaller banks

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Anthropic's Mythos AI model has sent U.S. banks into a scramble to address a wave of IT system vulnerabilities the tool has surfaced, triggering emergency remediation efforts and stoking concern about potential service interruptions, according to Reuters.

Several of the biggest U.S. banks are among those with direct access to Mythos and are actively working to address the flaws it uncovers, Reuters reported, drawing on unnamed sources with knowledge of the situation. Findings from those big lenders are being shared downstream with community and regional banks that have no access to Mythos, giving those institutions a chance to shore up their defenses in advance.

The volume of weaknesses Mythos is surfacing ranges from several hundred to thousands, most of them rated low to moderate in severity, Reuters reported. The pace of required remediation........

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