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NEWS: Germany’s finance watchdog BaFin to increase IT inspections amid AI risks

By Tom Sims

GERMANY’S banking regulator BaFin has warned that cyber risks are “growing” and “substantial” due to ​advances in AI, and announced a new ‌division will conduct targeted inspections at financial firms.

The emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos has set up a scramble from the global banking ​industry to gain access and test the technology ​as regulators rush to examine the cybersecurity ⁠risks the new artificial intelligence model raises and ​how prepared financial firms are to tackle them.

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