Anthropic's Project Glasswing found 10,000 critical flaws and hit a patching bottleneck

Anthropic launched Glasswing on April 7th, 2026, and by May 22nd said about 50 partners had found more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity flaws.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

Why it matters

Glasswing shows the limiting factor in AI cybersecurity shifting from finding vulnerabilities to verifying and patching them. Anthropic's partners produced findings faster than maintainers could process them, putting pressure on triage capacity and patch pipelines.

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Anthropic launched Project Glasswing on April 7th, 2026, giving a restricted group of partners access to Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model, to find and fix vulnerabilities in critical software. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, who serve as president and chief executive respectively.…

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