Bank of America deploys 4,000 people to patch vulnerabilities found by AI models such as Anthropic Mythos

Bank of America has hired 1,000 external contractors to patch software vulnerabilities found by AI models such as Anthropic Mythos, according to CNBC. CEO Brian Moynihan said these contractors have worked alongside 3,000 internal employees since the second quarter, and the company spent several hundred million dollars in the third quarter combined on software work and anti-money-laundering requirements, without giving a separate figure for vulnerability patching. Anthropic released Mythos in April only to select partners through Project Glasswing, saying the model found thousands of critical security vulnerabilities, and OpenAI launched the Daybreak cybersecurity program in May. Bank of America is one of the first large U.S. companies to disclose this scale of patching staffing, and Moynihan expects patching costs to decline over time.