Claude's Bug Bonanza: Anthropic's AI Finds 27 Years of Skeletons, Decides to Ground Itself

Anthropic has announced it is rolling out its AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, to only a select group of companies after the new model found thousands of critical vulnerabilities across operating systems, web browsers, and other software. Think of it as the digital equivalent of opening your attic after 15 years and discovering your old MySpace profile, your first crypto moonshot portfolio, and the skeleton of a hamster named "Mr. Whiskers" — all at once, and significantly more consequential.

The new general-purpose model also found high-security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. "Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely." Translation: the same AI that just handed them a present-wrapped box of nightmares will soon be available to anyone with a laptop, a dark sense of curiosity, and questionable life choices.

AI has already been used by hackers to conduct cyberattacks. There has been a 72% year-over-year increase in AI-powered cyberattacks, with 87% of global organizations experiencing AI-enabled cyberattacks in 2025, according to AllAboutAI. That's not a trend line — that's a vertical takeoff on the graph of bad days. If your company hasn't been hit yet, congratulations, you're either very secure or your IT guy is about to get a very uncomfortable call.

Anthropic expressed concern over what would happen if similar AI capabilities were used by bad actors. To combat this, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing on Tuesday, a new initiative that brings together more than 40 companies, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Cisco, Google, JPMorgan, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, and Nvidia. It's basically a digital neighborhood watch, except instead of watching for suspicious minivans, everyone's keeping an eye out for exploit code and unpatched backdoors. The Avengers, but for cybersecurity nerds, and with a much healthier budget.

Project Glasswing will use Claude Mythos Preview's capabilities to defensively find bugs, share the data with its partners, and get ahead of threats by patching critical vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them. In Web3 terms, it's like running a mandatory audit before launch — revolutionary concept, really. Who knew the key to blockchain adoption was just... not getting rekt?

A zero-day vulnerability is a software bug that can be exploited before anyone with the ability to fix it even knows it exists. Finding and patching them has historically required rare, expensive human expertise, but AI could change the scale and speed of detection. It's the difference between searching for a needle in a haystack with tweezers versus hiring 10,000 extremely caffeinated robots to absolutely demolish that