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Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
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Earliest dated coverage: 15 Oct 2026 · First observed: 15 Oct 2026 · Latest dated coverage: 15 Oct 2026
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Anthropic's Mythos illustrates how AI-driven vulnerability discovery at scale is reshaping defensive economics, forcing organizations to staff up dramatically to keep pace with machine-generated bug reports.
Bank of America brought in 1,000 additional contractors and spent 'a couple of hundred million plus' to patch the large volume of vulnerabilities discovered by Anthropic's Mythos model, according to CEO Brian Moynihan's Q3 earnings remarks. Mythos has been credited with finding complex flaws faster than humans — including 271 in Firefox 150 — though some early adopters called it no smarter than elite researchers.