Capitec Bank CEO Graham Lee Capitec CEO Graham Lee said on Wednesday that the bank has formally applied for early access to Anthropic’s Mythos model and, after clearing the first hurdle with Amazon Web Services, is now in direct discussions with Anthropic – putting South Africa’s largest retail bank by customer numbers among a growing…
Should South African organisations be panicked about Claude Mythos? The answer depends partly on whether the model lives up to its own marketing hype and partly on a set of defensive questions that are going to matter regardless. A brief recap: Mythos is the most capable AI model that San Francisco-based Anthropic has built, sitting…
The White House said its meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was “productive and constructive” on Friday, the latest sign of a potential thaw in the standoff between the government and the leading artificial intelligence company. But when President Donald Trump was asked about Amodei’s visit on a runway in Phoenix, Ariz., he responded, “Who?”…
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Thursday announced a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4.7, which the company said is an improvement over past models but is “less broadly capable”…
Late last month, the industry learnt that Anthropic is developing Claude Capybara – also referred to internally as Mythos – a powerful new AI model with substantially improved capabilities in vulnerability discovery, exploit development and multi-step attack reasoning. The details emerged through a data leak rather than a formal launch, but the market response was…
Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week questioned leading tech CEOs about the security of artificial intelligence models and how to respond to cyber attacks before Anthropic released its new Mythos model, CNBC has learned. The meeting occurred over the phone, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked…
