1 outlets · filed 15 October 2026
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today
What the coverage shows
Both outlets center on Bank of America bringing in 1,000 contractors after flaws were identified by Anthropic’s Mythos. CNBC frames the story around the cost of defending against AI, while The Register emphasizes the scale of the bug-fixing effort and adds, in its extract only, that the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today.
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