Anthropic provided an update on Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative launched in April, which employs AI to prevent cyberattacks. The initiative, powered by the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model, has helped partners identify over 10,000 vulnerabilities within a month of launch. Most partners reported discovering hundreds of critical- or high-severity vulnerabilities in their software.
The vulnerability detection rate among partners increased by more than tenfold. Cloudflare reported finding 2,000 bugs, with 400 categorized as high or critical severity. Mozilla revealed that it fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox, which is ten times the amount identified in an earlier version of the browser using a different Claude model.
Microsoft indicated that its patch releases are “trending larger for some time,” attributed to bugs identified through Mythos Preview. Additionally, Anthropic scanned 1,000 open-source projects using Mythos Preview, discovering 6,202 high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities out of 23,019. A security research firm recently claimed to have breached macOS by leveraging Mythos’ capabilities, although this was not included in the official report.
Anthropic stated it has not made Mythos Preview publicly available due to insufficient safeguards against potential misuse. The company plans to introduce “Mythos-class models” once adequate controls are established. Currently, it is collaborating with partners, including the US government, to expand Project Glasswing’s reach, aiming to strengthen its ties with federal authorities. Partners include Amazon Web Services, Apple, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks.
In financial news, Anthropic is reportedly on track to achieve profitability for the first time since its founding in 2021. The Wall Street Journal stated the company expects to post revenue of $10.9 billion with an operating profit of $559 million for the quarter ending in June. However, Anthropic does not anticipate sustaining profitability in upcoming quarters due to planned increases in investments for computing resources and other expenses.
