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Wall Street Breakfast

AI alarm hits Wall Street

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bessent, Powell call urgent meeting with bank CEOs about Anthropic model risks. (00:13) Meta (META) pulls down law firm ads seeking clients over Facebook, Instagram addiction. (02:01) U.S. Postal Service seeks stamp price increase to 82 cents as costs rise. (02:43)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.6

It's good to be with you on this Friday, the 10th of April. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:13.6

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are said to have summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns

0:22.4

that the latest AI model from Anthropic will usher in an era of greater cyber risk.

0:28.5

Reports say they assembled the group at Treasury's headquarters in Washington earlier this week

0:33.5

to make sure banks are aware of possible threats raised by anthropics mythos and potential

0:38.9

similar models and are taking precautions to defend their systems. Bloomberg News, which first

0:44.9

reported the matter on Thursday, said the CEOs of Citigroup Morgan Stanley, Bank of America,

0:51.2

Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs were present. J.P. Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Diamond,

0:56.9

was invited to the conversation but could not attend. Anthropic on Tuesday released the model

1:02.7

Claude Mythos preview to a select group of partners, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft,

1:09.5

to give them a head start on being able to secure vulnerabilities.

1:14.1

Anthropics says the new model can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most

1:19.7

skilled humans. Software companies nearly across the board were bleeding on Thursday,

1:25.5

with cybersecurity names hit the hardest amid persistent fears of

1:29.3

AI disruption and a shaky geopolitical backdrop. Cybersecurity firms were hemorrhaging the most, led by

1:36.8

Qualsys, which was down 12%. Cloudflare and Tenable close more than 8% lower, and Z-scaler tumbled 11%.

1:45.8

Moreover, OpenAI is also finalizing a new powerful model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities

1:52.6

that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropics' limited

1:58.5

rollout of Mythos.

2:06.7

Meta is taking down ads by law firms seeking clients on Instagram and Facebook to join lawsuits alleging harm from addictive platform design. The crackdown comes after a wave of legal

2:12.7

momentum against social media companies in recent court losses, including a $375 million ruling in New Mexico

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