US Treasury Seeking Access to Anthropic’s Mythos to Find Flaws

April 14, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

The US Treasury Department’s technology team is seeking to gain access to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos AI model so it can begin hunting for vulnerabilities, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Treasury Chief Information Officer Sam Corcos was aiming to gain access to the model, which Anthropic has been releasing to a limited number of institutions, as soon as this week, the person said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Corcos briefed the Treasury’s cybersecurity team on the technology last week and directed it to prepare for the eventual threats from powerful AI ...

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