By Sascha Brodsky
Publication Date: 2026-04-09 12:00:00
A new AI model from Anthropic is rewriting assumptions about what artificial intelligence can do, exposing vulnerabilities that have been hiding in plain sight for decades and forcing enterprise security teams to rethink their defenses from the ground up.
The model, called Mythos, was not built as a hacking tool. But the same reasoning power that makes it an exceptional coder also makes it good at finding and exploiting software flaws, and its limited release to a vetted group of technology companies under a program called Project Glasswing has set off debates about whether existing defenses can hold.
“This is a step change,” Dave McGinnis, Vice President of Global Managed Security Services at IBM, told IBM Think in an interview. “It’s not like they created the bugs. The people who wrote that code didn’t know those things were there.”
The concern is not simply that Mythos is a more powerful language model, though it is. Anthropic says the system has already…
