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Kentaro Okasaka
Tue, May 12, 2026 astatine 4:29 AM CDT 1 min read
By Kentaro Okasaka
TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) - Japan volition found a public-private moving radical this week to code cybersecurity risks to the fiscal strategy posed by Anthropic's caller artificial quality exemplary Mythos, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said connected Tuesday.
• Katayama, who met U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent successful Tokyo connected Tuesday, said the radical aims to make shared knowing of imaginable threats arising from AI among fiscal and tech industries and policymakers, with inputs from the U.S. government.
• A full of 36 entities, including fiscal institutions from megabanks to net banks, the Bank of Japan and the Japanese units of Anthropic and OpenAI, volition clasp the group's archetypal meeting connected Thursday, chaired by Mizuho Financial Group's Chief Information Security Officer Osamu Terai, according to the Financial Services Agency (FSA).
• Anthropic has launched Project Glasswing to connection entree to its latest AI exemplary for antiaircraft purposes to a constricted fig of organisations. The FSA said involvement among Japanese banks successful gaining entree to the exemplary is growing, though it did not clarify whether immoderate person formally sought access.
• The working radical volition sermon procedures when vulnerabilities are found, antiaircraft measures and contingency readying for scenarios wherever threats cannot beryllium afloat contained, the FSA said. The regulator besides said it is considering information-sharing with U.S. and different overseas authorities.
(Reporting by Kentaro Okasaka. Writing by Kantaro Komiya. Editing by Mark Potter)
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