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    Anthropic's Mythos Found the Bugs. Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Fix Them.

    The contractors were added on top of about 3,000 people already working in that area.

    Sachin MohanSenior Tech Journalist
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    Anthropic's Mythos Found the Bugs. Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Fix Them.

    Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said on October 14, 2026 that the bank had to scale up its patching work after Anthropic’s Mythos model “started finding bugs in the system.”

    “We put on 1,000 contractors to help us do the patching work in the second quarter,” he told CNBC. The contractors were added on top of about 3,000 people already working in that area.

    According to Moynihan, the flaws were in code used by both the bank and its outside vendors.

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    On the bank's Q3 earnings call the same day, Moynihan put a figure on the combined effort.

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    About the author

    Sachin Mohan

    Sachin is a Senior Writer at AIM Media House. He is a tech enthusiast and holds a very keen interest in emerging technologies and how they fare in the current market. He can be reached at sachin.mohan@aimmediahouse.com

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