Company Trump can’t ignore

Politico: The emergence of Mythos challenged those assumptions, forcing the Trump administration to reimagine AI models not only as trophies of Silicon Valley innovation but also as loaded weapons that could be aimed at critical parts of the American economy. As Bessent informed the financial industry, models like Mythos could democratize the once-scarce skill of hacking so that anyone could deploy it at enormous scale. At the Treasury Department early that Monday morning, Bessent laid out the worst-case scenario: a layperson able to crack the security of banks, power grids, telecommunications networks and government systems — targets that once required teams of highly skilled hackers to penetrate…