Should You Be Worried About Your Bank?

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Dr. Ayesha Khanna
April 16, 2026 • Reading Time: 2 minutes

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  • Should You Be Worried About Your Bank?

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Should You Be Worried About Your Bank?

The US government just called an urgent meeting of top bankers about a cyber threat - and it may affect your bank.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell summoned CEOs from Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley on short notice. The topic: a new AI model built by Anthropic called Mythos.

No bank has been attacked. No data has been stolen. This meeting was about what's coming.

What makes Mythos dangerous?

Mythos has discovered thousands of previously unknown security flaws — called zero-days — across every major operating system and browser. Some had gone undetected for 17 to 27 years. Think of a zero-day as a broken lock you never knew existed. Mythos didn't find one. It found thousands.

In the wrong hands, this technology could compromise financial systems and critical infrastructure at a speed and scale never seen before.

What's being done? Anthropic is withholding public release and has launched Project Glasswing, giving partners like Apple, Google, J.P. Morgan, and NVIDIA early access to find and patch vulnerabilities first.

What should you do?

  • Personally: consider whether all of your financial life sits behind one institution's security. Food for thought — Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning godfather of AI, has started splitting his savings across three Canadian banks for fear of AI-powered cyberattacks. 😲

  • Professionally: ask your chief information security officer (CISO) what percentage of your stack runs on legacy code.

Mythos may be the first. It won't be the last.

When AI Became the Wolf of Dalal Street

In early 2026, investors across India received what looked like a golden ticket: a video of the Bombay Stock Exchange CEO personally dishing out "exclusive" stock tips. The production quality was flawless his mannerisms, his voice, even the lighting matched official BSE communications. Thousands shared it. Markets twitched.

There was just one problem. He never said any of it.

The BSE was forced to issue an unprecedented emergency warning to investors, confirming the video was a deepfake — entirely fabricated using generative AI. No one knows exactly who created it or how many people traded on the fake advice before the truth caught up. Financial regulators scrambled to assess the damage while cybersecurity teams traced the video's origins across encrypted channels and social platforms.

The incident exposed a terrifying new frontier in financial fraud: AI-generated executive impersonation at broadcast quality, produced cheaply and distributed instantly. India's Securities and Exchange Board is now fast-tracking regulations around synthetic media in financial markets.

The CEO who never spoke moved markets. The person who made him "speak" has never been found.

Should stock exchanges watermark every official video with AI-verification tech?

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Build an AI Agent Live (No Experience Needed)

This one's for every CEO, board member, and senior manager who thinks reading about AI counts as understanding it.

Spoiler alert: It doesn't.

You can't feel its power by delegating it. You can't see its potential by being briefed on it. You can't lead through it by reading Harvard Business Review.

You have to get in and use it. Every day. Messily. Curiously.

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