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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot logo on a smartphone
Anthropic has said that its latest model, Claude Mythos, poses an unprecedented risk because of its ability to expose flaws in IT systems. Photograph: GK Images/Alamy

British banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that was deemed too dangerous to be released to the public, as a series of senior finance figures warned over its impact.

Anthropic, which has so far limited the release of the new model to a small clutch of primarily US businesses, including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, said it would expand that to UK financial institutions.

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