India, May 18 -- When AI Learns to Break Things

Anthropic's Mythos - an AI system capable of autonomously finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities - has sent shockwaves through India's financial establishment.

The system reportedly uncovered decades-old security flaws in OpenBSD, one of the world's most hardened operating systems. For a country that has built its financial stack on deeply interconnected digital rails - UPI, Aadhaar-linked auth, cloud-native banking APIs - the implications are hard to overstate.

The Government Scrambles: Finance Minister Sitharaman called top banks for a high-level security meeting following Mythos' release, warning of "unprecedented" cybersecurity risks and constituting a panel - headed by SBI c...