Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic - now tells banks to use its AI

This article was published on April 13, 2026 In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley are all reportedly testing the model. Mythos, which found thousands of zero-day flaws across major operating systems and browsers, is being distributed through a restricted programme called Project Glasswing to roughly 50 organisations. UK regulators are also scrambling to assess the risks. The Trump administration is quietly encouraging America’s largest banks to test the same AI company’s technology it has spent two months trying to destroy. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned executives from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley this week and urged them to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities