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Anthropic started requiring government-issued photo IDs and selfies from some users to prevent access from US adversaries like China, Russia, and North Korea
Matt Slotnick / @matt_slotnick: "we've secured 5 gigawatts for Claude" sounds like a bad startup mad libs joke you'd tell in 2015 NEED MORE COMPUTE "...This encompasses current and future generations of Trainium (Amazon's custom silicon) and tens of millions of Graviton cores (Amazon's widely-adopted CPU chip) to provide superior price performance. Anthropic will secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity to train and power their advanced AI models, including significant Trainium3 capacity expected to come online this year."
Credo, Astera Labs To Gain From $100B Amazon-Anthropic Deal
Yesterday, Anthropic (ANTHRO) announced a new deal with Amazon (AMZN) significantly expanding the scope of the collaboration between the two AI players. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, spending Uttam is a growth-oriented investment analyst whose equity research primarily focuses on the technology sector. Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud software are some of the key sectors that are regularly researched and published by him. His research also focuses on other areas such as MedTech, Defense Tech, and Renewable Energy. In addition, Uttam also authors The Pragmatic Optimist Newsletter along with his wife, Amrita Roy, who is also an author on the newsletter as well as on this platform. Their newsletter gets regularly cited by leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, etc. Prior to publishing his research, Uttam worked in Silicon Valley, leading teams for some of the largest technology firms in the world, including Apple and Google. Analyst's Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of ALAB, AMZN, MRVL either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article. Seeking Alpha's Disclosure: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. Any views or opinions expressed above may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha as a whole. Seeking Alpha is not a licensed securities dealer, broker or US investment adviser or investment bank. Our analysts are third party authors that include both professional investors and individual investors who may not be licensed or certified by any institute or regulatory body.
Amazon Stock: Anthropic And OpenAI Deals Highlight 'Growing Confidence' In Custom AI Chips
Amazon's latest cloud deal with Anthropic highlights the "growing confidence" in the tech giant's custom Trainium AI chips, Bank of America analysts said Tuesday. Amazon (AMZN) stock gained in morning trades. Seattle-based Amazon announced late Monday that it would invest an additional $25 billion in Anthropic, with the AI startup also agreeing to spend more than $100 billion with Amazon's...
Vercel Breach: How a Roblox Cheat Download Led to a $2M Data Heist Through AI Tool OAuth Abuse
Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js and one of the most widely used deployment infrastructures for modern web applications, confirmed on April 19, 2026 that attackers gained unauthorized access to its internal systems and compromised customer credentials. A threat actor claiming the ShinyHunters identity is attempting to sell the stolen data for $2 million on BreachForums, claiming access to customer API keys, source code, and database information. The attack chain is a case study in how AI tool adoption, overly permissive OAuth grants, and a single employee's poor security hygiene can cascade into a breach affecting potentially thousands of organizations. It started with a Roblox cheat download. It ended with customer secrets exposed across one of the internet's most critical deployment platforms. The Attack Chain: From Game Cheats to Enterprise Breach Phase 1: Lumma Stealer Infects a Context.ai Employee (February 2026) The breach did not start at Vercel. It started at Context.ai, a third-party AI office suite tool that builds agents trained on company-specific knowledge. According to research published by Hudson Rock on April 20, a Context.ai employee was infected with Lumma Stealer malware in February 2026. The infection vector was remarkably mundane: browser history logs indicate the employee was actively searching for and downloading Roblox "auto-farm" scripts and game exploit executors. These types of downloads are notorious distribution channels for infostealer malware. The Lumma Stealer infection harvested corporate credentials from the employee's machine, including Google Workspace credentials along with keys and logins for Supabase, Datadog, and Authkit. Hudson Rock states they obtained this compromised credential data over a month before the Vercel breach became public. Had the infostealer infection been identified and the exposed credentials revoked at that point, the entire downstream attack could have been prevented. Phase 2: Context.ai AWS Environment Compromised (March 2026) Using the stolen credentials, the attacker gained access to Context.ai's AWS environment. In a security advisory published on April 20, Context.ai confirmed unauthorized access to their infrastructure and stated that the attacker "likely compromised OAuth tokens for some of our consumer users." Context.ai described the breach as broader than initially believed, having first notified only one customer before realizing the scope extended further. The critical detail: Context.ai operates as a Google Workspace OAuth application. When users sign up for the platform, they grant it permissions to access their Google Workspace data. The OAuth tokens the attacker obtained from Context.ai's compromised AWS environment provided authenticated access to every Google Workspace account that had authorized the Context.ai application. Phase 3: Vercel Employee's Google Workspace Account Hijacked At least one Vercel employee had signed up for Context.ai's AI Office Suite using their Vercel enterprise Google account and granted it "Allow All" permissions. This is the pivot point where the breach jumped from an AI startup to one of the internet's most critical deployment platforms. Context.ai's own security notice stated plainly that "Vercel is not a Context customer, but it appears at least one Vercel employee signed up for the AI Office Suite using their Vercel enterprise account and granted 'Allow All' permissions. Vercel's internal OAuth configurations appear to have allowed this action to grant these broad permissions in Vercel's enterprise Google Workspace." Using the compromised OAuth token, the attacker took over the Vercel employee's Google Workspace account. From there, they gained access to Vercel's internal environments and customer environment variables that were not marked as "sensitive" in Vercel's system. Phase 4: Customer Data Accessed and Exfiltrated Once inside Vercel's internal systems, the attacker demonstrated what Vercel described as "surprising velocity and in-depth understanding of Vercel's systems." Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch stated on X that the company believes the attacking group to be "highly sophisticated" and "strongly suspect, significantly accelerated by AI." The attacker accessed customer environment variables, the settings where developers store API keys, database credentials, signing keys, and other secrets needed to run their applications. Environment variables marked as "sensitive" in Vercel are encrypted at rest and cannot be read through the dashboard or API. Vercel stated they do not have evidence that sensitive-marked variables were accessed. However, environment variables not explicitly marked as sensitive were exposed. For many Vercel customers, this means API keys, database connection strings, third-party service tokens, and other production credentials may have been compromised. The threat actor then listed the stolen data for sale on BreachForums for $2 million, claiming it included access keys, source code, and databases. The real ShinyHunters group denied involvement in the breach to multiple publications, suggesting the listing may be from someone impersonating the well-known extortion operation. The Scale of Impact Vercel's Position in the Web Infrastructure Stack The severity of this breach extends beyond Vercel itself because of the platform's position in the modern web infrastructure stack. Vercel provides hosting and deployment infrastructure for millions of developers, with a dominant position in the JavaScript and React ecosystem. The company developed and maintains Next.js, one of the most widely used web frameworks. Its services include serverless functions, edge computing, and CI/CD pipelines that power production applications for companies across every industry. When Vercel customer environment variables are compromised, the blast radius extends to every service those variables authenticate against: databases, payment processors, AI model providers, cloud infrastructure accounts, and third-party APIs. A single compromised environment variable can grant an attacker the same access that the application itself holds. Crypto Projects Scramble to Rotate Credentials The breach has triggered particular urgency in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space, where many projects host critical wallet interfaces and dashboards on Vercel. Solana-based exchange Orca confirmed it uses Vercel but stated its on-chain protocol and user funds were not affected. Multiple other crypto teams are scrambling to rotate API keys and audit their code. This concern is well-founded. Environment variables in crypto applications often contain private keys, wallet credentials, and exchange API tokens. Exposure of these credentials could enable direct theft of funds, not just data access. Broader Downstream Risk Vercel warned that the Context.ai compromise is not limited to Vercel. The compromised OAuth application potentially affected "hundreds of users across many organizations." Any organization whose employees authorized the Context.ai Google Workspace OAuth application may be at risk of the same type of account takeover. Vercel published the OAuth application identifier (110671459871-30f1spbu0hptbs60cb4vsmv79i7bbvqj.apps.googleusercontent.com) as an indicator of compromise. Google Workspace administrators across every organization should check whether this application was authorized in their environment. Why This Breach Matters The Shadow AI Problem This breach is a textbook example of what security practitioners call "shadow AI": employees adopting AI tools with corporate credentials without IT or security team approval, granting those tools broad access to enterprise systems. The Vercel employee who signed up for Context.ai did not go through a vendor security review. They signed up for an AI tool, authenticated with their corporate Google account, and clicked "Allow All" on the OAuth permissions dialog. That single action created a trust chain from an unknown third-party AI startup directly into Vercel's enterprise Google Workspace. When building the CIAM platform that scaled to serve over a billion users, we implemented strict OAuth scope management from the early days. Every third-party application requesting access to user data had to justify its permission scope, and overly broad permission grants were flagged and blocked. The lesson was clear then and it is clear now: OAuth is not just an authentication protocol. It is an authorization protocol, and the "Allow All" button is the most dangerous permission grant in modern enterprise security. The proliferation of AI tools has made this problem exponentially worse. Every AI assistant, AI office suite, AI code helper, and AI meeting summarizer that asks for Google Workspace access is creating exactly the type of trust chain that this breach exploited. Most organizations have no visibility into which AI tools their employees have authorized, what permissions those tools hold, or what data they can access. OAuth as an Attack Vector The Vercel breach demonstrates why OAuth has become one of the most consequential attack surfaces in cloud security. OAuth tokens are bearer credentials. Whoever possesses a valid OAuth token can act with the full permissions that token was granted, regardless of whether they are the original authorized user. When an organization like Context.ai stores OAuth tokens in its infrastructure, and that infrastructure is compromised, every token becomes accessible to the attacker. The tokens do not need to be cracked or brute-forced. They are valid, unexpired credentials that authenticate the bearer to the target service. The "Allow All" permissions grant compounds the problem. When a user authorizes an OAuth application with broad permissions, they are not just granting access to one specific dataset. They are creating a persistent credential that provides ongoing access to their entire workspace: emails, documents, calendar, contacts, and administrative functions. For organizations running Google Workspace, the defense is straightforward but requires proactive configuration. Administrators should restrict which third-party OAuth applications can be authorized, require approval for new OAuth grants, regularly audit existing OAuth grants for excessive permissions, and immediately revoke access for any application that is compromised or decommissioned. The Infostealer-to-Enterprise Pipeline The attack chain from Roblox cheats to enterprise breach follows a pattern that cybersecurity teams are seeing with increasing frequency. Infostealer malware targeting individuals creates a reservoir of compromised credentials that attackers later operationalize against corporate targets. Hudson Rock's timeline makes this painfully clear. The Context.ai employee was infected in February 2026. The credentials were harvested and available in criminal databases for over a month. The Vercel breach was disclosed in April. Had any monitoring system flagged the compromised credentials during that intervening month, the attack could have been stopped before it started. This is not an edge case. Infostealer infections are among the most common malware vectors globally. Lumma Stealer specifically has become one of the dominant credential-harvesting tools in the cybercriminal ecosystem. Credentials stolen by infostealers are systematically packaged, sold, and eventually used by more sophisticated threat actors for targeted operations. The path from a compromised personal device to an enterprise breach is now well-trodden. What Organizations Should Do Immediate Actions Check for the Context.ai OAuth application. Google Workspace administrators should immediately check whether the OAuth application identifier has been authorized in their environment. If it has, revoke access immediately and begin incident response procedures. Vercel customers: Rotate non-sensitive environment variables. If any environment variables contain secrets (API keys, tokens, database credentials, signing keys) that were not marked as "sensitive" in Vercel, those values should be treated as potentially exposed and rotated immediately. Review environment variable management as a priority. Audit recent Vercel deployments. Check for unexpected or suspicious deployments in your Vercel account. Review activity logs through the Vercel dashboard or CLI for any unauthorized actions. Delete any deployments that look suspicious. Enable Vercel's sensitive environment variables feature. Going forward, mark all secrets as "sensitive" so they are encrypted at rest and cannot be read through the dashboard or API. This Month Audit all OAuth grants in your Google Workspace. Use the Admin Console to review every third-party application that has been granted access. Remove any applications that are not actively used or officially approved. This should become a regular practice, not a one-time response to this breach. Implement OAuth application whitelisting. Configure your Google Workspace to restrict OAuth access to pre-approved applications only. This prevents employees from granting enterprise access to unapproved AI tools or other third-party services without IT review. Deploy infostealer monitoring. Services that monitor criminal marketplaces and credential databases for your organization's domains can provide early warning when employee credentials are compromised. The Context.ai credentials were available for over a month before being used. Detection during that window would have prevented the cascade. This Quarter Establish an AI tool governance policy. The shadow AI problem is not going away. Organizations need clear policies defining which AI tools employees can use with corporate accounts, what permission scopes are acceptable, and what review process new AI tools must go through before being authorized. This is not about blocking AI adoption. It is about managing the identity and access implications of AI adoption. Implement zero trust for environment variables and secrets. Secrets management should follow zero trust principles: short-lived credentials instead of permanent API keys, automatic rotation on a defined schedule, and segmentation so that compromise of one secret does not expose the entire environment. Tools like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or cloud-native secrets management should replace environment variables for production secrets wherever possible. Review your OAuth threat model. OAuth is not just a developer convenience. It is an attack surface. Every OAuth grant in your environment represents a trust relationship that an attacker can exploit if the third party is compromised. Map your OAuth dependencies, assess the risk each one represents, and build monitoring for anomalous OAuth token usage. The Bottom Line The Vercel breach traces a remarkably clear line from individual carelessness to enterprise compromise: a Context.ai employee downloads Roblox cheats, gets infected with Lumma Stealer, loses their corporate credentials, and those credentials are used to compromise Context.ai's infrastructure. Context.ai's compromised OAuth tokens give the attacker access to a Vercel employee's Google Workspace. The employee had granted the AI tool "Allow All" permissions. The attacker uses that access to reach Vercel's internal systems and access customer environment variables. A threat actor then lists the data for $2 million. Every link in this chain represents a failure of identity governance. Failure to detect an infostealer infection. Failure to restrict OAuth permissions. Failure to monitor third-party access tokens. Failure to enforce the principle of least privilege. Failure to separate sensitive from non-sensitive secrets in the deployment pipeline. The Vercel breach is not a story about a sophisticated zero-day exploit or a novel attack technique. It is a story about the consequences of granting broad permissions to third-party AI tools without understanding what those permissions mean. In 2026, when every employee has access to dozens of AI tools and each one requests OAuth access to corporate systems, this is the breach pattern that will define the era. The question for every organization is not whether their employees are using unauthorized AI tools with corporate credentials. They are. The question is whether the organization has the identity infrastructure, the OAuth governance, and the secrets management architecture to contain the inevitable compromise when one of those tools is breached. Key Takeaways * Vercel confirmed on April 19, 2026 that attackers gained unauthorized access to internal systems, with a threat actor selling stolen data for $2 million on BreachForums * The attack originated from a compromised Context.ai employee infected with Lumma Stealer malware after downloading Roblox game exploit scripts in February 2026 * The attacker used stolen credentials to compromise Context.ai's AWS environment and exfiltrate OAuth tokens for Google Workspace users * A Vercel employee had signed up for Context.ai's AI Office Suite using their enterprise Google account with "Allow All" OAuth permissions, creating the pivot point into Vercel's systems * Customer environment variables not marked as "sensitive" in Vercel were exposed, potentially including API keys, database credentials, and signing keys * Environment variables marked as "sensitive" are encrypted at rest and Vercel reports no evidence they were accessed * The compromised OAuth token was available for over a month before being operationalized, meaning early detection could have prevented the cascade * Vercel described the attacker as "highly sophisticated" with "surprising velocity," potentially accelerated by AI * The breach has critical implications for crypto projects hosting wallet interfaces on Vercel, with teams scrambling to rotate credentials * Context.ai's compromised OAuth application potentially affects hundreds of users across many organizations, not just Vercel * Google Workspace administrators should immediately check for OAuth application ID: 110671459871-30f1spbu0hptbs60cb4vsmv79i7bbvqj.apps.googleusercontent.com * The breach highlights the shadow AI problem: employees granting enterprise OAuth access to unapproved AI tools without security review Related Reading on guptadeepak.com: * Machine Identity Management: The Complete Enterprise Guide - Why OAuth tokens, API keys, and service credentials are the fastest-growing attack surface * Authentication Best Practices for 2026 - Modern approaches to credential management and secrets rotation * Zero Trust Security Architecture - Implementing least-privilege access for cloud environments and third-party integrations * FIDO2 Implementation Guide - Phishing-resistant authentication that eliminates credential theft as an attack vector * What is CIAM? - Understanding identity governance across customer and enterprise contexts * Customer Identity Hub - Comprehensive resources on identity architecture and OAuth security * AI Agent Authentication and Security - How AI tool proliferation creates new identity attack surfaces * Passkeys at Scale: Enterprise Deployment Playbook - Eliminating the credential theft that started this breach chain Need help with AI visibility for your B2B SaaS? GrackerAI helps cybersecurity and B2B SaaS companies get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews through Generative Engine Optimization. Deepak Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of GrackerAI. He previously founded a CIAM platform that scaled to serve over 1B+ users globally. He writes about AI, cybersecurity, and digital identity at guptadeepak.com.
Bitget brings pre-IPO tokens to masses starting with SpaceX shares on Solana
The offering is issued by through investment platform Republic with tokens minted on the Solana blockchain. Crypto exchange Bitget rolled out a new platform offering tokenized exposure to private companies, starting with an asset linked to SpaceX, as firms push to bring early-stage investing onto blockchain rails. The platform, called IPO Prime, allows users to subscribe to tokens that track the economic performance of companies before they go public. Its first listing, preSPAX, is tied to Elon Musk's space and artificial intelligence firm and is issued through Republic, an investment platform specializing in private markets, with tokens minted on the Solana blockchain. Trading began after a short subscription window, giving users near-immediate liquidity. That marks a break from traditional pre-IPO investing, where stakes in private firms are often locked up for years with limited options to exit. Instead of fixed allocations, users commit stablecoins into a pool and receive tokens based on total demand. Once distributed, those tokens can be traded on a spot market, allowing investors to adjust positions as expectations around a future listing shift. Tokenization has gained traction across traditional finance, from bonds to money market funds to equities. Extending the model to pre-IPO markets could widen access to a segment long dominated by venture capital and private equity, while testing how far crypto infrastructure can reshape capital formation. The pre-IPO tokens do not represent equity ownership. They are derivatives structured to mirror financial outcomes tied to a company's valuation after a public debut. SpaceX is preparing for one of the most widely expected stock market debuts this year, after the firm reportedly confidentially filed for an IPO.
Trump says Anthropic Pentagon deal is 'possible'
The US president told CNBC on Tuesday that Anthropic is 'shaping up' following a White House meeting last Friday at which the company's CEO Dario Amodei discussed its Mythos AI model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic remains in legal limbo, with a federal appeals court and a San Francisco district court having reached conflicting conclusions. President Donald Trump told CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday that a deal allowing Anthropic's AI models to be used within the Department of Defense is "possible," describing the company as "shaping up." "They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them, and I think they're shaping up," Trump said. "They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use." The comments mark a striking rhetorical reversal from a president who, in late February, posted on Truth Social ordering all federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology" and declared that his administration would "not do business with them again." Trump's remarks follow a White House meeting on Friday 18 April at which Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discuss the company's new Mythos model, a frontier AI system Anthropic has described as highly capable at cybersecurity tasks and has so far made available only to a small group of organisations. The White House described the conversation as "productive and constructive." Anthropic said Amodei had a "productive discussion" with administration officials about how the company and the US government can "work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety." When reporters asked Trump about the meeting on a runway in Phoenix, he responded "Who?" and said he had "no idea" Amodei had been there. The meeting took place against the backdrop of a dispute that has few precedents in the relationship between Washington and the technology industry. In July 2025, Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, becoming the first AI lab to have its models approved for use on the DOD's classified networks. But as negotiations over Claude's deployment on the department's GenAI.mil platform began in September, talks broke down. The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic grant unfettered access to its models for all lawful purposes. Anthropic drew two firm lines: its AI would not be used in fully autonomous weapons systems that select targets without human intervention, and it would not be used for domestic mass surveillance of Americans. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded by designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk to national security" in late February 2026, a label previously reserved for companies associated with foreign adversaries. The formal designation, confirmed to Anthropic's leadership on 5 March, required defense contractors to certify they were not using Anthropic's models in work with the military. Trump amplified the measure with his Truth Social directive. The designation was, as Anthropic argued in subsequent litigation, unprecedented: as US District Judge Rita Lin noted in a stinging 43-page ruling that granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in late March, it appeared to be directed not at a genuine national security threat but at punishing the company for "bringing public scrutiny to the government's contracting position", "classic illegal First Amendment retaliation," she wrote. The legal situation remains split. A federal appeals court in Washington DC denied Anthropic's request to temporarily block the supply chain risk designation on 8 April. Judge Lin's preliminary injunction in San Francisco, from a separate but related case, bars enforcement of Trump's Truth Social ban on Claude across the rest of the government. The practical effect is that Anthropic is excluded from Pentagon contracts but can continue working with other government agencies while both cases proceed. The DOD has continued to use Claude during the US-Iran war, which began before the blacklisting took effect. What appears to have shifted the White House's posture is Mythos. Parts of the intelligence community and CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, have been testing the model. The White HouseOffice of Management and Budget is setting up protocols to allow federal agencies to access a controlled version. Treasury Secretary Bessent's presence at Friday's meeting was read by sources close to the negotiations as a signal that the economic and financial security arguments for Mythos access had reached the most senior levels of the administration. As one administration source told Axios: "It would be grossly irresponsible for the US government to deprive itself of the technological leaps that the new model presents. It would be a gift to China." Whether any resumption of the Anthropic-Pentagon relationship is possible remains uncertain. Trump's Tuesday comments refer to talks that have been promising but did not produce a deal. The appeals court ruling on the supply chain risk designation still stands. Hegseth has not withdrawn his position. Anthropic, meanwhile, has engaged Ballard Partners, the lobbying firm where Wiles previously worked, for advocacy around Department of War procurement, a move that signals it understands the political dynamics as well as the legal ones. The company's annualised revenue has reached $30 billion and it is considering an IPO; the supply-chain risk designation damages enterprise credibility even where it does not block commercial deals.
Anthropic 'can be of great use': Trump amid White House discussions with CEO Dario Amodei
The strained relationship between Anthropic, the AI firm listed as a 'supply chain risk', and President Donald Trump's administration seems to be 'shaping up' towards a positive direction. In an interview, the US President has stated that Anthropic is shaping up in the eyes of his administration, expressing openness to allowing the company to resume contracts with the Pentagon. In the interview with CNBC's Squawk Box, Trump revealed that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and senior executives met with White House officials last week, with the administration describing it as productive discussions. "They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them," Trump said. "And I think they're shaping up. They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use. I like smart people," he concluded. Anthropic-Trump relations improving after high-level meeting The White House meeting, which was confirmed previously by the White House as a 'productive and constructive' one, was held between Amodei and senior Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The meeting appears to be part of a broader effort to repair ties outside the Defense Department, which has categorised Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Trump's latest remarks now suggest that his administration is open to resolving the Pentagon standoff, which kicked off in February 2026 after Amodei refused to grant the Pentagon unlimited access to its AI tools over fears of US using the AI tool for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. A renegotiated deal could allow Anthropic to regain access to classified networks and military contracts, where its Claude models were previously the only frontier AI system approved for such use. Will the US-China AI race push Trump, Dario Amodei to join hands? The development emerges at a time when the US continues to intensify its AI competition with China. Senior officials have highlighted the strategic importance of maintaining leadership in the frontier AI race, even while insisting on strong national security safeguards. Anthropic has not yet commented publicly on Trump's statements. On the side note, Anthropic continues with its lawsuit against the Pentagon while simultaneously expanding commercial partnerships with other firms and releasing powerful new models like Mythos. It is expected that the re-emergence of a deal between Anthropic and the Pentagon could significantly boost Anthropic's valuation and government revenue stream, easing pressure on the company's ongoing business expansion. Meanwhile, Sam Altman's OpenAI, which quickly stepped in to fill the gap left by Anthropic's blacklisting from the Pentagon, may now need to face renewed competition for defense contracts.
Amazon deepens AI push with $25 billion bet on Anthropic
At a time when Anthropic's Claude gains ground among enterprise users, Amazon has announced its plans to invest around $25 billion in the AI major. The deal, which signals Amazon's aggressive push into AI, includes $5 billion invested immediately in Anthropic with up to $20 billion more tied to commercial milestones. The fresh $5 billion takes Amazon's total investment in the AI company to $13 billion. Expanding capacity On its part, Anthropic is committing over $100 billion over the next decade to AWS, and is securing up to 5GW of new capacity to train and run Claude. This will mainly go toward securing access to current and future generations of Amazon's custom chips Graviton (a low-power CPU) and Trainium (an AI accelerator chip) to help Anthropic provide high performance. It also includes an element of international inference in Asia and Europe for Claude to better serve its growing global customer base. Additionally, AWS customers will now also be able to access the full Anthropic-native Claude console from within AWS, through their existing accounts, with no additional credentials, contracts or billing relationships. Over one lakh customers already run Anthropic Claude models on AWS already. Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon | Photo Credit: RAVI REDDY "Anthropic's commitment to run its large language models on AWS Trainium for the next decade reflects the progress we've made together on custom silicon, as we continue delivering the technology and infrastructure our customers need to build with generative AI," Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, said. Amazon's stock climbed about 2.15 per cent to $253.62 after the market opened on Tuesday. Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder of Anthropic | Photo Credit: RUHANI KAUR "Our users tell us Claude is increasingly essential to how they work, and we need to build the infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand," Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder of Anthropic, said. "Our collaboration with Amazon will allow us to continue advancing AI research while delivering Claude to our customers, including the more than 100,000 building on AWS." Interestingly, the deal is similar to the one Amazon struck with OpenAI recently, when it joined the latter's $110 billion funding round. This too was structured partly as cloud infrastructure services. AI consolidation Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst, Founder & CEO, Greyhound Research, said the deal should be viewed as a consolidation of AI infra. Access to AI models may be across platforms, but ability to operate those models at scale is increasingly concentrated with a small number of hyperscalers who hold the power availability, chip supply, and network capacity, among others, he said. "By securing anchor tenants like Anthropic, hyperscalers [like Amazon] too are able to justify the massive capital expenditure and shape how that infrastructure is consumed," he added. Anushree Verma, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner, said that with Anthropic gaining ground with enterprises, it is crucial for them to lock in a preferred AI infra partner. There will be more such deals in the offing up till 2028, a timeline when we will likely see new-age AI players mature and define the Agentic stack. Enterprise and developer demand for Claude has accelerated in 2026, and the company says it has also experienced a sharp rise in consumer usage across our free, Pro, and Max tiers. "Our run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025," Anthropic said. Comments Published on April 21, 2026 READ MORE
Bitget Launches New Pre-IPO Product With SpaceX as First Listing
Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched IPO Prime, introducing a new market structure that enables users to access and trade pre-IPO exposure to global unicorn companies such as SpaceX. Powered by Republic, the launch marks an expansion beyond traditional secondary market trading, enabling participation in value creation before companies enter public markets, a phase historically limited to institutional investors and private capital networks. Through IPO Prime, Bitget extends its Universal Exchange framework into primary market access, bridging a long-standing gap between private and public market participation. IPO Prime operates through a subscription-based model, where eligible users can apply for allocations in tokenized offerings tied to specific companies. Allocation limits are determined based on user tier, with higher participation thresholds available to elevated VIP levels. Following the subscription phase, these digital assets transition into an over-the-counter market on Bitget, enabling continuous pricing, trading and circulation within a structured environment. The first offering under IPO Prime is preSPAX, a digital asset designed to mirror the economic performance of SpaceX following its potential public listing. As one of the most closely watched private companies globally, SpaceX represents the type of high-growth opportunity that has traditionally remained inaccessible to retail investors. "Since the beginning of financial markets, access to pre-IPO opportunities has been defined by exclusivity," said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. "IPO Prime allows users to participate earlier in a company's growth cycle, with the flexibility of continuous trading. This shifts how and when investors can engage with emerging companies, which gives retailers and new investors a chance to buy-in early. This is part of our greater shift towards building an UEX, democratizing access to financial equality." To mark the launch, Bitget will introduce two rounds of preSPAX token airdrops for eligible VIP users, on April 13, 2026 at 10:00 (UTC), providing early participants with additional exposure as the platform begins onboarding its first offering. The official preSPAX token launches on April 21, 2026 at 12:00 (UTC), with the commitment period starting April 18, 2026, 18:00 and ending April 21, 2026, 18:00 (UTC). Distribution period runs from April 21, 2026 18:00 till April 21, 2026, 22:00 (UTC). The introduction of IPO Prime is a new route to traditional financial opportunities being structured and accessed. As boundaries between asset classes continue to blur, platforms are expanding beyond traditional and crypto trading to include early-stage market participation. Within Bitget's Universal Exchange model, IPO Prime moves towards integrating diverse financial opportunities into a single, unified environment. To find out more about IPO Prime and further details on preSPAX, visit here.
Trump suggests Pentagon open to revisiting Anthropic blacklist in media interview
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Anthropic was "shaping up" in the eyes of his administration, opening the door for the AI company to reverse its blacklisting at the Pentagon. Trump directed the government in February to stop working with Anthropic. The Pentagon followed up by declaring the firm a supply-chain risk, dealing a major blow to the artificial intelligence lab after a showdown over guardrails for how the military could use its AI tools. The company disputes that characterization and filed suit against the Defense Department in March over the determination. Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon from labelling Anthropic a supply chain risk Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House officials last week to attempt to repair the relationship. The White House called the meeting productive and constructive. "They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them," Trump told CNBC's Squawk Box on Tuesday. "And I think they're shaping up. They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use. I like smart people ... I think we'll get along with them just fine." When asked if a deal was on the horizon with the Pentagon, Trump said, "It's possible. We want the smartest people." Anthropic, asked for comment, referred to its Friday statement describing its White House meeting as productive and focused on how the two "can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety." The apparent rapprochement comes weeks after Anthropic unveiled Mythos, its most advanced AI tool, with a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts have said. Canada must move quickly to address AI-related cybersecurity risks, Macklem warns Anthropic has said Claude Mythos Preview will not be made generally available. Instead, the company announced Project Glasswing, in which it invited major tech companies, cybersecurity vendors and U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase, along with several dozen other organizations, to privately evaluate the model and prepare defences accordingly. Anthropic Co-founder Jack Clark said last week the firm was discussing its frontier AI model Mythos with the Trump administration without providing details.
Trump: Deal with Anthropic still 'possible' for military use
"They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them, and I think they're shaping up," Trump said during an interview with CNBC's Squawk Box. "They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use." In March, the Pentagon tagged the AI company as a "supply-chain risk," a designation usually reserved for foreign entities, after bitter negotiations between Anthropic and the War Department failed to make a breakthrough regarding the use of Claude, the company's AI chatbot. Anthropic wanted assurances from the Pentagon that Claude would not be used for mass domestic surveillance or to operate fully autonomous weapons. Pentagon officials disputed the claims and argued that it would now allow any private company to dictate how it uses systems in war, and maintained that they wanted complete authorization for "any lawful use." Since then, the company has filed two lawsuits challenging the designation, which are now playing out in the court system. Amodei's recent visit to the White House seems to have helped ease some of the tension between the two sides. Amodei "met with senior administration officials for a productive discussion on how Anthropic and the U.S. government can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety," an Anthropic spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. ANTHROPIC CEO SCHEDULED TO MEET WITH SUSIE WILES "The meeting reflected Anthropic's ongoing commitment to engaging with the U.S. government on the development of responsible AI. We are grateful for their time and are looking forward to continuing these discussions," the spokesperson added.
Trump says Anthropic is 'shaping up,' open to deal with Pentagon
WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told CNBC that AI giant Anthropic was "shaping up" in the eyes of his administration and he was open to a deal to allow the firm to resume contracting with defense officials. Trump in February directed federal agencies to blacklist Anthropic from procurement projects, alleging its new "Mythos" system was a supply chain risk. The company disputes that characterization and filed suit against the Defense Department in March over the determination. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with White House officials last week to attempt to repair the relationship. The White House called the meeting productive and constructive. "They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them," Trump told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday. "And I think they're shaping up. They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use. I like smart people." (Reporting by Jacob Bogage;Editing by David Ljunggren)
I'm A Celeb star quits days before final as contestants sob in campsite chaos
One All Star has left the South Africa campsite, leaving their co-stars scrambled I'm A Celebrity has been thrown into complete chaos as one campmate announces they are leaving the show on their own terms. The contestants are left in disbelief as the TV star explains the reason behind their decision. The incident unfolds at the start of the day when an emotional campmate gathers everyone together to say: "I've just got something to tell you all. I didn't feel very well this morning... and the medics have advised I can't return to camp. I've got to go home." With teary eyes, they add: "I don't want to go. I'm absolutely gutted. I wanted to finish." The remaining campmates are seen hugging the star before they make their exit, which left everyone in shock. The identity of the departing celeb has not been revealed to Daily Star readers so that viewers can watch the drama unfold on ITV tonight. The unexpected exit leaves eight contestants competing in Friday's live final. They will participate the Rancid Run trial, which was previewed on Monday night's show as they compete against each other in pairs, reports the Mirror. Further evictions will be made throughout the week, whittling down the number to four celebs battling it out in the final. On Monday night [20 April], David Haye and Gemma Collins were voted off the camp. Last week, comedian Seann Walsh was the first celeb to leave the South Africa series. During this year's All Stars series, fans have seen former boxer David Haye face criticism for his language while in camp. Last week, he described his girlfriend Sian as "lovely," but went on to say she "has the personality of a proper ugly bird." He said: "Most ugly girls realise they've gotta have a personality and the banter to tell jokes and s**t, so people overlook the fact that they're not aesthetically amazing straight away. It's called ugly duckling syndrome, where girls are ugly when they start off, then they get pretty as they get older, but they've still got the personality of when they were ugly." I'm A Celebrity carries on tonight on ITV and ITVX at 9pm. Have you joined Threads? Follow Daily Star to keep up to date on all things showbiz here
Musk and insiders to retain voting control of SpaceX after IPO, filing shows
SpaceX plans to cement founder Elon Musk's control after its IPO, granting him and a small group of insiders super-voting shares that will outweigh other investors, according to excerpts of the company's IPO filing reviewed by Reuters. The prospectus, which was confidentially filed this month, provides fresh details of the company's financials and corporate governance. Upon completion of the offering, Musk will stay on as chief executive officer, chief technical officer, and will serve as chairman of SpaceX's nine-member board of directors. Though Musk was paid $54,080 last year, according to the excerpts, he stands to gain billions in equity after the company's stock market debut. SpaceX is targeting a listing valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion with a $75 billion raise, which would make it the largest initial public offering in history. Musk bought $1.4 billion in the company's stock last year and stands to get another 60 million in shares if SpaceX's market value reaches $6.6 trillion and he is able to build data centers in space under a stock plan approved last month, the Information reported. President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell received $85.8 million in total compensation last year, Reuters previously reported, while Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnsen was paid $9.8 million. ANALYST DAY Some of the executives are driving Musk's IPO ambitions with three days of meetings planned this week for Wall Street analysts, starting with a tour and briefings at SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The filing excerpts show SpaceX will use a dual-class equity structure that gives Class B shareholders 10 votes each, concentrating power with Musk and a handful of other insiders, while Class A shares sold to public investors will carry one vote each. They also outline provisions that could limit shareholders' ability to influence board elections or pursue certain legal claims, forcing disputes into arbitration instead and restricting where they can be brought. While such structures are common among founder-led technology companies, they limit public shareholders' ability to influence strategy or challenge management. FIRST LOOK AT FINANCIALS The filing gives investors the first look at SpaceX's financial health, especially after Musk combined the rocket maker with his social media and AI company xAI this year. The combined company ended 2025 with about $24.8 billion in cash on hand, and had total assets of $92 billion against total liabilities of $50.8 billion. Its satellite internet business Starlink generated billions in profit last year, helping to offset heavy losses inherited when it bought founder Elon Musk's social media and artificial intelligence company xAI this year, the excerpts show. SpaceX swung to a $4.94 billion consolidated loss in 2025 on revenue of $18.67 billion as it invested heavily in xAI's artificial intelligence infrastructure, from a $791 million profit and $14.02 billion in revenue the year before. It lost $4.63 billion on $10.4 billion in revenue in 2023. AI SPENDING Its losses stem from an almost fivefold increase in capital spending over two years to $20.74 billion last year, more than half of that on AI spending. The company's successful Starlink satellite internet service is subsidizing much of that spending, generating $4.42 billion in operating profit but accounting for less than a quarter of its total capital expenditures. Capital expenditure at the AI segment surged to $12.7 billion from $5.6 billion the prior year, pushing SpaceX's total capex above $20.7 billion, more than double the prior year. That remains a fraction of spending by the largest technology companies on AI infrastructure: Meta, with a comparable market capitalization of about $1.7 trillion, had capital expenditure of $72 billion in 2025. The Information previously reported some aspects of the financials. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Echo Wang; Writing by Dawn Kopecki; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Nick Zieminski)
Anthropic Readies Mythos For Europe's Banks, But Security Comes First
So far, access has been uneven: some US lenders got an earlier look, which puts pressure on European and UK banks to start testing before AI tools get embedded into everyday work. Anthropic has shared Mythos through Project Glasswing, a program for organizations that build or run critical software infrastructure, and it has publicly confirmed JPMorgan Chase, a major US bank, as a user. Policymakers at the International Monetary Fund's sp.. ring meeting also flagged a downside: powerful models can widen cyber risk, especially when older "legacy" systems create weak links attackers can exploit. That's why Anthropic is running security checks before deployment, and why the rollout may move at different speeds across institutions. Why should I care? For markets: Being first can set the new playbook. Big banks that test new tech early can turn what they learn into faster automation, better risk monitoring, and tighter partnerships with vendors - and those advantages can stack up over time. With Mythos already linked to Glasswing and confirmed at JPMorgan, European and UK lenders risk starting later than US peers. In a sector where pilots typically roll out in stages, a head start can mean earlier process rewrites and stronger defenses. The bigger picture: AI is becoming a financial stability issue. Regulators worry that new AI systems could amplify old weaknesses because many banks still rely on aging infrastructure that's harder to secure. That's why officials, including Germany's central bank chief Joachim Nagel, have pushed for more equal access, so competition stays fair and misuse risks don't pool in a few fast movers. If access stays lopsided, it could widen the gap between early testers and everyone else - while concentrating operational and cybersecurity risk where adoption is fastest.
Scoop: Top U.S. cyber agency doesn't have access to Anthropic's powerful hacking model
Why it matters: The country's top cyber defense agency, tasked with helping to secure everything from banks to power plants, is being left behind at a time when the industries it works with are deeply concerned about AI-powered cyberattacks overwhelming their defenses. * Anthropic decided against a public release of Mythos due to its unprecedented ability to quickly discover and exploit security vulnerabilities. * Instead, Anthropic provided it to more than 40 companies and organizations who are now testing it and working to shore up their systems. * CISA is not on that list, the sources say. State of play: Earlier this month, an Anthropic official told Axios the company briefed CISA and the Commerce Department on Mythos' capabilities. * The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation has reportedly been testing Mythos. * The NSA is also among the organizations using Mythos, despite the Department of Defense, which oversees the agency, having declared Anthropic is a "supply chain risk." * It's unclear if the ongoing turmoil within the agency during the second Trump administration played any role in the agency not moving more swiftly to secure access. * Spokespeople for CISA and Anthropic did not respond to requests for comment. The big picture: The Trump administration has spent the last year reducing capacity at CISA, instead opting to give more policy influence to the White House's national cyber director and pushing some programs to the state and local level. * CISA's acting director Nick Andersen told lawmakers last week that the agency's resources are "more limited than I would like." * Trump proposed cutting as much as $707 million from the agency's budget in the upcoming fiscal year. * CISA has already lost more than a third of its workforce and millions in funding. Between the lines: National cyber director Sean Cairncross is among the Trump officials negotiating broader civilian agency access to Mythos. * Treasury has also been negotiating access. * Other organizations with access to Mythos have predominantly been using it to find exploitable security vulnerabilities in their own networks, sources tell Axios. What to watch: Security teams at critical infrastructure organizations have often looked to CISA to share threat intelligence across their sectors and determine how to prioritize their security strategies.
Wall Street view: Is Amazon's Anthropic deal a strategic AI win or a cost burden?
Investing.com -- Wall Street has mostly welcomed Amazon's expanded partnership with Anthropic, viewing the $100 billion, 10-year AWS commitment as a major vote of confidence in the company's Trainium chip ambitions. Amazon shares are up 2.6% premarket following the news. Wells Fargo analyst Ken Gawrelski noted that the $100 billion figure is a minimum commitment, estimating Anthropic could contribute $115 billion in AWS revenues between 2026 and 2028, rising to $40 billion to $50 billion annually at full deployment of a projected 5 gigawatts of capacity by 2028. Gawrelski flagged the launch of Claude Platform on AWS as a key competitive differentiator, bringing collaboration tools previously exclusive to Anthropic's own platform, including Claude Cowork and Artifacts, to AWS for the first time. Truist analyst Youssef Squali noted that the deal "deepens Amazon's relationship with Anthropic" and demonstrates that Trainium is gaining momentum in AI training and inference workloads. Combined with a separate OpenAI commitment, Squali said total anchor tenant commitments now exceed $200 billion, which he believes creates upside to AWS revenue estimates in the second half of 2026 and beyond, above current consensus growth of 25% year-on-year. BMO Capital analyst Brian Pitz was equally constructive, arguing that the long-term partnerships "justify the ~$200B of 2026 CapEx." Pitz reiterated the outperform rating and top pick designation on Amazon, with a $310 price target.
Anduril and Kraken partner to deliver mission-ready maritime power at scale - Naval News
Defense technology giant Anduril Industries and autonomous maritime technology company Kraken Technology Group announced their partnership at the Sea-Air-Space Expo to support the US Navy's transition to a hybrid fleet. Kraken Technology press release Through this agreement the companies are positioned to rapidly develop and deliver a capable, scalable, and mission-ready unmanned fleet. The strategic partnership includes the joint development of long-range, high-performance, integrated capabilities to address domestic and international requirements for small, fast quick-reaction vessels - including upcoming US Navy programmes. Both the K7 SABRE and K5 KRAKEN USVs will be manufactured and integrated under license in the US, alongside a range of modular payload systems designed to deliver expanded versatility and interoperability across US forces and NATO partners. The agreement further strengthens Kraken's position in the US market, following the recent award of a $49 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) by US SOCOM and several other international contract wins. Mal Crease, Founder & CEO, Kraken Technology Group, said: "This partnership reflects Kraken's commitment to supporting global maritime challenges with hardened operational capabilities at a critical point in history. Under this agreement Kraken will deliver low-cost, scalable and modular systems that are both reliable and effective." Cory Emmons, General Manager of Surface Dominance, Anduril Industries, said: "Kraken is known for their proven, battle-tested platforms. This partnership expands Anduril's family of autonomous surface offerings with small boats carrying mission payloads, adding a complementary capability to larger ASVs and the legacy fleet."
Anthropic plans to provide Mythos access to European banks soon, sources say
* Mythos AI raises cybersecurity concerns among regulators and policymakers * Rollout to European banks may take days or weeks, sources familiar with the matter say * German central bank chief Joachim Nagel urges equal access to prevent misuse NEW YORK/PARIS, April 21 (Reuters) - Anthropic plans to provide access to its Mythos AI model to European banks soon, three people familiar with the matter said, as global banks scramble to test the technology after large U.S. banks were given initial access. Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as posing significant challenges to the banking industry and its legacy technology systems, prompting a series of warnings from regulators and policymakers gathered at last week's International Monetary Fund spring meeting in Washington. A string of U.S. banks have so far been given access to Mythos - while the rest of the industry tries to catch up. Anthropic aims to expand Mythos AI access to European and UK banks, among other organizations, one of the people familiar with the matter told Reuters. That process involves checks to ensure the rollout is done securely, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another person said the access could be provided to European banks within days, while the first person said the rollout might take days or weeks. Bloomberg previously reported that Anthropic would release Mythos to UK financial institutions soon. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Anthropic initially provided access to the model to partners in its Project Glasswing initiative and about 40 additional organisations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure. JPMorgan Chase, which is part of Glasswing, was the only bank Anthropic has publicly said has access, although Bank of America has been part of Glasswing since the start and has been testing the Mythos technology internally, according to a source familiar with the matter. Other U.S. banks have more recently said they have been given access to Mythos, as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity risks the new artificial intelligence model raises. German central bank chief Joachim Nagel called on Tuesday for all institutions to have access to Anthropic's artificial intelligence model Mythos to keep the playing field even and to avoid it being misused. (Reporting by Saeed Azhar, Jeffrey Dastin and Mathieu Rosemain in Paris; editing by Megan Davies and Franklin Paul)
RPT-Anthropic plans to provide Mythos access to European banks soon, sources say
* Mythos AI raises cybersecurity concerns among regulators and policymakers * Rollout to European banks may take days or weeks, sources familiar with the matter say * German central bank chief Joachim Nagel urges equal access to prevent misuse NEW YORK/PARIS, April 21 (Reuters) - Anthropic plans to provide access to its Mythos AI model to European banks soon, three people familiar with the matter said, as global banks scramble to test the technology after large U.S. banks were given initial access. Mythos is viewed by cybersecurity experts as posing significant challenges to the banking industry and its legacy technology systems, prompting a series of warnings from regulators and policymakers gathered at last week's International Monetary Fund spring meeting in Washington. A string of U.S. banks have so far been given access to Mythos - while the rest of the industry tries to catch up. Anthropic aims to expand Mythos AI access to European and UK banks, among other organizations, one of the people familiar with the matter told Reuters. That process involves checks to ensure the rollout is done securely, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another person said the access could be provided to European banks within days, while the first person said the rollout might take days or weeks. Bloomberg previously reported that Anthropic would release Mythos to UK financial institutions soon. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Anthropic initially provided access to the model to partners in its Project Glasswing initiative and about 40 additional organisations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure. JPMorgan Chase, which is part of Glasswing, was the only bank Anthropic has publicly said has access, although Bank of America has been part of Glasswing since the start and has been testing the Mythos technology internally, according to a source familiar with the matter. Other U.S. banks have more recently said they have been given access to Mythos, as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity risks the new artificial intelligence model raises. German central bank chief Joachim Nagel called on Tuesday for all institutions to have access to Anthropic's artificial intelligence model Mythos to keep the playing field even and to avoid it being misused. (Reporting by Saeed Azhar, Jeffrey Dastin and Mathieu Rosemain in Paris; editing by Megan Davies and Franklin Paul)