Kamal Ghorui
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI giant Anthropic has now issued a stark warning to the US companies, banks, and government agencies. Amodei said that all these institutions only have a narrow window of time to fix tens of thousands of software vulnerabilities uncovered by the company’s latest AI model, Mythos. According to a report by CNBC, Amodei made this comment during an Anthropic’s event, where he shared stage with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Previewed last month, Anthropic’s latest AI model — Mythos sent shockwaves across the financial and tech designs. The model was able to uncover decades-old flaws in critical software. Amodei revealed that while earlier Anthropic models found dozens of vulnerabilities such as 20 in Firefox, Mythos uncovered nearly 300 in the same browser, with the total count across all software now running into the tens of thousands. Most of these vulnerabilities remain undisclosed to prevent exploitation, but Amodei cautioned: “The danger is just some enormous increase in the amount of vulnerabilities, in the amount of breaches, in the financial damage that’s done from ransomware on schools, hospitals, not to mention banks.”
China’s AI timeline
Amodei also stressed on urgency. He noted that AI models from China are only six to twelve months behind Mythos. That, he said, gives U.S. institutions “roughly that amount of time” to patch vulnerabilities before adversarial actors could weaponize similar capabilities.Anthropic also unveiled 10 new AI agents designed to automate financial work, from investment banking to back-office operations, and announced integration across Microsoft Office programs. The company highlighted that its latest widely available model, Claude Opus 4.7, leads benchmarks for financial analysis tasks.On regulation, Amodei compared AI oversight to the automotive industry: “You can’t just start a car company without ‘Are there brakes on this thing?’ We need to grope our way to some process that lets the industry operate expeditiously, is fair, but puts guardrails on the most serious things.”
