EU in Talks With Anthropic to Get Banks Tested for Mythos Flaws

May 4, 2026, 7:52 PM UTC

The European Union is in talks with Anthropic PBC about getting its companies and banks tested for any vulnerabilities that the new Mythos AI model uncovers.

“Indeed there are contacts with Anthropic,” said EU Economy Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, speaking Monday night after a meeting of Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels.

Dombrovskis said Anthropic had briefed the European Commission, the EU’s executive, on the unreleased tool’s “cyber capabilities and risks.” Ultimately, he wants European companies “to have possibilities for this cyber resiliency testing.”

Mythos, which can identify unknown flaws in IT systems, has sent a wave of anxiety across Europe, ...

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