Anthropic debuts ‘Project Glasswing’ and new AI model for cybersecurity | The Verge

AINewsAnthropicA new Anthropic model found security problems ‘in every major operating system and web browser’For now, the company is only releasing Project Glasswing to “defensive security” partners.For now, the company is only releasing Project Glasswing to “defensive security” partners.by Hayden FieldApr 7, 2026, 6:00 PM UTCLinkShareGiftThe VergeHayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.Anthropic is debuting a new AI model as part of a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Microsoft, and other companies. Project Glasswing, as it’s called, is billed as a way for large companies, and potentially even the government, to flag vulnerabilities in their systems with virtually no human intervention.Anthropic is offering its launch partners access to Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose model that it’s not currently planning to publicly release due to security concerns. Newton Cheng, the cyber lead for Anthropic’s frontier red team, told The Verge that the model will ideally give cyber defenders a “head start” against adversaries. The partners will use the model to analyze their system to spot high-stakes vulnerabilities and help patch them up. Access is restricted to keep those same adversaries from using it to find weak points and conduct attacks.Though Claude Mythos Preview wasn’t specifically t...