Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update (www.schneier.com)

<p>In April, Anthropic initated <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing">Project Glasswing</a>. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic&#8217;s claims that it&#8217;s now common wisdom that Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than other models. Which is just <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/how-dangerous-is-anthropics-mythos-ai">not</a> <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-cybersecurity-mythos">true</a>.</p>
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any case, Anthropic has <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update">published</a> a Project Glasswing status report. It&#8217;s finding <a href="https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-mythos-detected-23000-potential-vulnerabilities-across-1000-oss-projects/">a lot</a> of vulnerabilities in software&#8212;yay! Some of them are even dangerous. But almost none of them has been patched. It&#8217;s ...</p>