Anthropic’s Glasswing initiative raises questions for US cyber operations

Intelligence officials and industry are weighing how Claude Mythos Preview could reshape hacking and cyberdefense. The company has also briefed senior officials on the AI model it says has already uncovered thousands of cyber vulnerabilities.

Anthropic’s decision to hold back a powerful frontier AI model over cybersecurity risks, paired with a new initiative to study its effects on global networks, is prompting discussions about how such tools could reshape hacking operations within the U.S. intelligence community, and how they might be used to identify and exploit weaknesses in adversary systems.

The company unveiled Project Glasswing on Tuesday, seeking to help secure critical software against AI-driven attacks, with partners including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Cisco, Google, Microsoft and others. Those participants will gain access to Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased model the company says has already uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities as Anthropic looks to steer its tools toward defensive ...