Anthropic’s Claude Mythos has intensified cybersecurity attention on AI-enabled vulnerability discovery and has prompted high-level engagement with major financial institutions. Reports say Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell convened senior Wall Street executives at the Treasury to warn banks about AI model cybersecurity risks. Anthropic released a report on Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities, including the ability to identify old vulnerabilities—such as a 27-year-old issue in OpenBSD. The company described releasing Mythos as too risky for broad commercialization, and instead limited access through an invitation-only defensive initiative. The meeting reportedly included CEOs from Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs, with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon invited but not attending. Regulators reportedly declined to comment, but the development signals that AI safety decisions are now moving into enterprise risk management and board-level cybersecurity planning. For higher education, the immediate relevance is indirect but growing: campuses rely on the same cloud, financial, and critical-infrastructure ecosystems increasingly targeted by AI-enabled threats. Institutions will need to integrate AI-risk signals into their security posture, especially where teaching, research, and administrative systems depend on vendor software systems that could be probed for vulnerabilities.