Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman convened a high-level meeting with bank chiefs, the IT Ministry, the Reserve Bank of India, NPCI and CERT-In to assess cybersecurity risks tied to Anthropic’s `Claude Mythos`, India Today reports. The meeting asked banks to take pre-emptive measures, advised real-time threat-intelligence sharing with CERT-In, and tasked the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) with coordinating a response, India Today adds. The Indian Express reports the government is in conversation with Anthropic after a briefing said Mythos may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. Public reporting describes `Claude Mythos` as a restricted preview that Anthropic says can autonomously surface software vulnerabilities; Indian Express cites independent testing by the UK AI Security Institute that put the model at **73%** on expert-level hacking tasks.
