An April email to bank technology chiefs, released under access-to-information rules, shows OSFI naming Anthropic’s frontier model as a reason the window for fixing flaws is closing.
Regulators do not usually name products. They write about “emerging technologies” and “advanced capabilities” and leave the reader to work out which vendor they mean. So it is worth noticing that when Canada’s banking watchdog wrote to the country’s biggest lenders in April, it named one: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos.
The email, sent on 29 April by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions to chief technology officers, chief information security officers, and chief risk officers across Canada’s banks and insurers, was obtained by Reuters through an access-to-information request.
“Advanced artificial intelligence models, such as Anthropic Claude Mythos, significantly compress the timeframe for effective risk mitigation,” OSFI wrote. The bulletin, it said, set out “sound practices that institutions can adopt to enhance the speed and effectiveness of risk identification, mitigation and response”.
Parts of the email were redacted under the Access to Information Act, so what OSFI actually recommended remains partly hidden. What is visible is the diagnosis. The traditional patching cycle assumes defenders get days or weeks between a flaw being discovered and being exploited.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!
