The NewYorkTimes.com reported that “Anthropic said on Tuesday, it will make the new model — known as Claude Mythos Preview — available to a consortium of more than 40 technology companies, including Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will use the model to find and patch security vulnerabilities in critical software programs.” The April 7, 2026 report entitled “Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/anthropic-claims-its-new-ai-model-mythos-is-a-cybersecurity-reckoning.html) included these comments from Reporter Kevin Roose:
Anthropic said it had no plans to release its new technology more widely, but was announcing the new model’s capabilities in one area in particular — identifying security vulnerabilities in software — in an effort to sound the alarm over what the company believes will be a new, scarier era of A.I. threats.
“The goal is both to raise awareness and to give good actors a head start on the process of securing open-source and private infrastructure and code,” Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief science officer, said in an interview.
The coalition, known as Project Glasswing, will include some of Anthropic’s competitors in A.I., such as Google, as well as hardware providers like Cisco and Broadcom, and organizations that maintain critical open-source software, such as the Linux Foundation. Anthropic is committing up to $100 million in Claude usage credits to the effort.
Logan Graham, the head of an Anthropic team that tests new models for dangerous capabilities, called the new model “the starting point for what we think will be an industry change point, or reckoning, with what needs to happen now.”
Anthropic occupies an unusual position in today’s A.I. landscape. It is racing to build increasingly powerful A.I. systems, and making billions of dollars selling access to those systems, while also drawing attention to the risks its technology poses. The company was deemed a supply-chain risk this year by the Pentagon for demanding certain limitations to the use of its technology. A federal judge later stopped the designation from going into effect.
Sounds like good news!
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