Anthropic launches Project Glasswing to defend critical software against AI-powered attacks

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Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model designed for cybersecurity that has already discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The model is being distributed as a preview to over 40 organizations and major technology partners including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services through Project Glasswing, a coordinated cybersecurity initiative.

Twelve major technology companies—including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia—have launched Project Glasswing, a coordinated effort to identify and patch critical software vulnerabilities using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos Preview model. The initiative discovered thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in mission-critical software, including a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a 16-year-old vulnerability in widely-used video software that automated testing tools had missed.

Anthropic released version 0.90.0 of its Python SDK on April 7, 2026, adding support for the claude-mythos-preview model. The update also includes a bug fix for query parameter merging in the client.

Anthropic unveiled a preview of Mythos, a frontier model it claims is the most powerful in its Claude lineup, for use in Project Glasswing—a cybersecurity initiative with 40+ partner organizations. According to Anthropic, Mythos identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, many critical and up to two decades old, during early testing. The model will not be made generally available and is restricted to defensive security work by vetted partners.