{"id":12292,"date":"2026-04-12T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:35:19","slug":"uk-financial-regulators-rush-to-assess-risks-of-anthropics-latest-ai-model-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/12292\/","title":{"rendered":"UK financial regulators rush to assess risks of Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 12 (Reuters) &#8211; UK financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government&#8217;s cyber security agency and major banks \u200cto assess risks posed by the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> \u200cmodel from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Officials at the Bank of \u200bEngland, the Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential vulnerabilities in critical IT systems highlighted by Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Representatives \u200cfrom major British banks, \u2060insurers and exchanges are expected to be briefed on the cyber security risks posed by the model, \u2060Claude Mythos Preview, at a meeting with regulators in the next fortnight, it said, citing two people briefed on the talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Reuters could not immediately \u200bverify \u200bthe report. Anthropic did not respond \u200bto Reuters&#8217; request for \u200ccomment while the BoE declined to comment and the Treasury, NCSC and FCA were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The move follows a meeting called by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with major Wall Street banks on the model\u2019s cyber risk potential, Reuters nL4N40T024 \u200creported on Friday, citing two sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200bAI startup has said the model is \u200bbeing deployed as part \u200bof \u201cProject Glasswing nL4N40Q0LK\u201d, a controlled initiative under which \u200cselect organizations are permitted to \u200buse the unreleased \u200bClaude Mythos Preview model for defensive cyber security purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In a blog post earlier this month, the startup said the model \u200bhad already identified \u201cthousands\u201d \u200cof major vulnerabilities across operating systems, web browsers and other \u200bwidely used software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Mihika Sharma in BengaluruEditing by \u200bBernadette Baum and Christina Fincher)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 12 (Reuters) &#8211; UK financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government&#8217;s cyber security agency and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1866,5836,1578,5834,5835,5838,5837,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-cyber-risk","9":"tag-cyber-security","10":"tag-financial-conduct-authority","11":"tag-financial-regulators","12":"tag-hm-treasury","13":"tag-major-banks","14":"tag-national-cyber-security-centre","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116391767096098206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}