Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend world's most critical software

ZDNET’s key takeaways

• AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems.
• Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
• Cyberattack timelines shrink from months to minutes.

Today, a group of the world’s biggest tech companies is announcing what is essentially an AI-driven cybersecurity Manhattan Project. 

As the Cyberwarfare Advisor for the International Association of Counterterrorism & Security Professionals and part of the FBI’s InfraGard Artificial Intelligence Threat and Mitigation Cross-Sector Council, I’ve spent decades profiling global threats, from lecturing at the National Defense University to leading nationwide cyberattack simulations. But the arrival of a new frontier AI from Anthropic represents a paradigm shift that even the most prepared infrastructure specialists are scrambling to navigate.

There is a lot to unpack from this announcement, but before I go into the published details, I’m going to try to read between the…