Good morning. Here’s what happened overnight and what you need to know today.
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Mythos maker: Anthropic is expanding its Mythos cybersecurity program to about 200 organisations, up from roughly 50, across more than 15 countries, the company said. New partners include countries in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK, as well as others including France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, India, Japan and South Korea, the FT reported, citing an unnamed source. A company spokeswoman told the AFR Australian organisations would indeed receive access. Anthropic has previously briefed Treasury, the RBA and stewards of Australia’s critical infrastructure on Mythos while withholding access. Those joining Project Glasswing, which Anthropic did not name, span healthcare, power, water, communications and hardware industries, it said. The FT also reported that Nato and the EU’s cybersecurity agency Enisa have been granted access, along with tech companies Okta, Samsung, SK Hynix and SK Telecom. Anthropic said it collaborated with existing Glasswing partners, the security industry, open-source software maintainers and the US government on the expansion. It added that many of the new partners are vendor companies and nonprofits that maintain codebases relied upon by other organisations, including governments. Separately, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing US agencies to secure voluntary agreements with AI developers to test powerful models up to 30 days before public release, scaled back from a version he shelved on 21 May that had proposed a 90-day review period. (Capital Brief)(Anthropic)(WSJ)(FT)(Reuters)
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Audit trail: The RBA is reviewing its whistleblower hotline arrangements with KPMG as the leaks scandal enveloping the accounting giant continues to spiral. The central bank uses KPMG’s FairCall whistleblower hotline service for its integrity reporting function, and a source with direct knowledge of the situation told Capital Brief the arrangement was now being reviewed after KPMG was accused of breaching client confidentiality. Labor Senator Deborah O’Neill told Capital Brief that KPMG operating such a hotline was “an untenable proposition”, saying the firm’s culture “seems incompatible with the necessary professional standards required to authentically engage with whistleblowers.” The Australia Institute’s director of democracy and accountability Bill Browne said the use of external for-profit firms to provide whistleblower services to government agencies was “perverse”, adding that using a firm with multiple integrity scandals to provide integrity services was “a reckless use of taxpayer money.” NAB, Evolution Mining and the ASX confirmed use of the service but declined to comment on whether they were reviewing it. KPMG is set to front a joint parliamentary committee on 19 June. (Capital Brief)
