00:04Hello, and welcome to Global Pulse News.
00:08Imagine building a vault door so secure that no human could crack it, and then creating
00:13a key that opens it in under a second.
00:16That is the reality confronting the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve this week.
00:22Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Besant convened an emergency
00:28and previously undisclosed meeting on Tuesday with the CEOs of America's five largest banks.
00:35The topic was not inflation.
00:37It was not interest rates.
00:39It was an artificial intelligence called Claude Mythos.
00:43Developed by the research firm Anthropic, Mythos was designed to find and patch cybersecurity
00:49holes.
00:50But according to exclusive reporting from Bloomberg and Axios, its capability is so advanced, able
00:57to detect flaws in operating systems and browsers with exponentially greater efficiency than
01:03a human team, that it has been designated a restricted weapon.
01:07Anthropic only distributed the model to approximately 40 organizations.
01:12The company reportedly told officials it was simply too powerful for public release.
01:17Yet the very banks that received the tool are now the ones federal officials fear could
01:23be destroyed by it.
01:25Let us contextualize the scale of this threat.
01:28A top security expert told Business Insider that a skilled team of human hackers can find
01:35about 100 critical, unpatchable flaws in a year.
01:39Claude Mythos?
01:40It can find thousands.
01:42And it does not merely identify the weakness.
01:45It instantly understands the exploitation vector.
01:48Officials assessing the model believe Mythos is capable of debilitating Fortune 100 infrastructure,
01:55infiltrating national defense systems, and taking down huge swaths of the Internet.
02:00The short-term advantage in this digital arms race lies squarely with any malicious actor
02:06who gains control of the model.
02:08This emergency comes at a precarious regulatory moment.
02:12Regulators require banks to hold massive cash reserves to survive exactly this kind of cyber
02:19event.
02:19And yet, the Federal Reserve had just proposed easing some of those capital requirements.
02:25The emergence of Mythos has likely thrown that deregulation plan into complete disarray.
02:31The political backdrop adds another layer of tension.
02:35The Pentagon previously designated Amtropic a supply chain risk, after the company limited
02:41its artificial intelligence use in warfare.
02:44Now, the administration finds itself in an emergency huddle over a tool built by that
02:49exact same company.
02:51The model remains contained, for now.
02:54But this week's secret summit in Washington confirms that the line between defensive software
02:59and offensive cyber weaponry has officially vanished.
03:04Wall Street and the White House are on notice.
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