AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI

Anthropic has launched an effort to help people patch the software vulnerabilities exposed by its own Project Glasswing. If that sounds like a careless camper starting a wildfire and later funding a fire department, well, that's one way of looking at it. Anthropic insists it wants to give defenders access to the tools attackers are already using. Under a program name that sounds like a forthcoming Tom Cruise film – "Anthropic Cyber Mission" – the Claudefather is directing its effort into two areas. The first is a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, because no one wants AI models showing miscreants how to shut down public utilities with newly discovered zero-day SCADA vulnerabilities. The program combines the company's priciest models with on-site engineers – sometimes now referred to as forward deployed engineers – because despite the sophistication of AI coding agents, human security experts are still useful and many organizations lack in-house talent tutored in the ways of machine learning. …