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Taking The Threat Seriously

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[SPEAKER_B] Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, April 10th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the US government is taking the Anthropic warning seriously. Google is showing prediction markets alongside various search results. Europeans are beginning to decouple from US tech. Kicking the tires on SpaceX's actual business. And of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. There has been some chatter this week that, you know, what if that whole Anthropic is afraid to release a model because it might break all the software thing was really nothing more than a marketing stunt? Well, if it is a marketing stunt, these folks are taking it seriously. Quoting Bloomberg, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic PBC would usher in an era of greater cyber risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group at Treasury's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday to make sure banks are aware of possible future risks raised by Anthropic's Mythos and potential similar models and are taking precautions to defend their systems, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified, citing the private discussions.

Taking The Threat Seriously

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

Taking The Threat Seriously

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.