Por qué los líderes de la Fed y el Tesoro, Powell y Bessent, se apresuraron a asistir a una reunión crítica sobre riesgo cibernético
Burns Brief
El secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, y el presidente de la Reserva Federal, Jerome Powell, convocaron esta semana una reunión urgente con líderes de Wall Street, saltándose la rutinaria cadencia informativa y empujando a los directores ejecutivos de los bancos a tomar una decisión directa... La noticia ha sacudido a los participantes del mercado, con los bajistas tratando de hacer bajar los precios mientras los alcistas intentan defender niveles clave de soporte. Esté atento a la reacción de $EOS: un movimiento decisivo por encima o por debajo de niveles clave confirmará la próxima tendencia.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders this week, bypassing the routine briefing cadence and pulling bank CEOs into a direct conversation about AI-driven cyber risk. Reports noted that the meeting aimed to ensure banks understood the risks posed by Mythos and similar models and were already taking defensive steps. When the Treasury secretary and the Fed chair jointly pull bank chiefs into an urgent room, they are communicating that the risk is systemic. The irony running through this episode is sharp. On Mar. 2, the Treasury, State, and HHS moved to stop using Anthropic products, acting on a presidential directive, with Bessent publicly stating that Treasury was terminating all use. On Mar. 9, the General Services Administration terminated Anthropic's government-wide contract . On Apr. 8, a federal appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's blocklisting of Anthropic while litigation continues. So, in the same week, officials were managing an active procurement and national security dispute with Anthropic, while also warning the country's largest banks to prepare for the risk posed by Anthropic-class capabilities. What Mythos actually changed The evidentiary basis for the official alarm rests on Anthropic's own materials, which are more specific than typical model launch claims. Anthropic says Mythos has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including flaws in every major operating system and every major web browser, and that more than 99% of them are still unpatched. The company's system card describes the model as capable of identifying and exploiting zero-days across those platforms. This is the kind of capability that, in the wrong hands or released without coordination, compresses the timeline between vulnerability discovery and weaponized attack. Anthropic's response to its own findings was to restrict access under a structure it calls Project Glasswing, limiting release t
Key Takeaways
- Reports noted that the meeting aimed to ensure banks understood the risks posed by Mythos and similar models and were already taking defensive steps
- When the Treasury secretary and the Fed chair jointly pull bank chiefs into an urgent room, they are communicating that the risk is systemic
- 2, the Treasury, State, and HHS moved to stop using Anthropic products, acting on a presidential directive, with Bessent publicly stating that Treasury was terminating all use
- 9, the General Services Administration terminated Anthropic's government-wide contract
- 8, a federal appeals court declined to block the Pentagon's blocklisting of Anthropic while litigation continues