Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing, Restricts Claude “Mythos” AI to 50-plus Trusted Partners

Tech firms have periodically formed defensive coalitions when a single breakthrough threatened to upend the status quo: think of the 1883 Telegraph Union pooling patents, the Allied cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park in 1943, or the 1988 Morris Worm that spurred CERT coordination. Project Glasswing echoes those moments—yet with an AI model that can both discover and weaponise zero-days in minutes, compressing the offence-defence loop much as nuclear physics in 1945 collapsed the gap between theory and existential threat. Long-running trends—software eating critical infrastructure, open-source dependence, compute centralisation—made such a convergence inevitable; the novelty is that private actors, not states, now control a capability some compare to a “cyber Manhattan Project.” Whether Glasswing becomes a durable governance template or a brief cartel will shape how, a century from now, societies remember the early AI era: as the point we contained autonomous digital super-tools, or the moment we merely delayed their diffusion.