Claude Mythos: The AI That Hacks Better Than Humans Has Finance Ministers in Crisis Mode
An AI model is now sharing agenda space with active wars at the IMF spring meetings. That sentence alone tells you everything about where we are in April 2026. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos — an AI model the company literally refused to release because of how good it is at hacking — has finance ministers, central bankers, and Fortune 500 CEOs in full crisis mode. Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne compared it to the Strait of Hormuz. The ECB president says we have no governance framework to handle it. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent summoned the CEOs of America’s systemically important banks to Washington specifically to discuss it. ...