The AI Podcast

Episode: Anthropic’s Mythos Found Millions of Security Vulnerabilities

Host: Jaden Schaefer
Date: April 7, 2026

Episode Overview

In this timely episode, host Jaden Schaefer explores the impact and implications of Anthropic’s newly unveiled Project Glasswing, powered by their latest and most powerful AI model to date—Claude Mythos Preview. The episode focuses on the model’s impressive (and potentially alarming) abilities to uncover software vulnerabilities at a scale never before seen, the risks and opportunities this poses, and how Anthropic and leading tech organizations are responding to this technological leap. While the threats are real, the discussion strikes a balance between optimism and concern about the future of cybersecurity and software reliability.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Project Glasswing: Breaking News Overview

• [01:30] Anthropic’s Project Glasswing was announced just an hour prior to the recording, promising to “secure the world’s most critical software” using the new Claude Mythos Preview model.
• Mythos can identify software vulnerabilities at a level rivaled only by the best human experts.

Notable Quote

“They said basically this is going to be an existential crisis for code because everything can be hacked and there’s vulnerabilities everywhere that can be found.”
— Jaden Schaefer [02:10]

2. Urgent Initiative & Security Measures

• [02:20] Anthropic is not releasing the model to the public yet. Instead, they’ve pledged $100 million in resources to major companies—including Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, and the Linux Foundation—so they can test and patch open source and proprietary software before wider deployment.
• [03:30] The model was tested internally and revealed “thousands of zero day vulnerabilities”—many in code a decade or more old.

Notable Quote

“It’s like the model’s so powerful, they can’t release it till we fix all the software in the world.”
— Jaden Schaefer [04:02]

3. Model Capabilities & Launch Strategy

• Mythos isn’t just for security—it's described as Anthropic’s "most powerful model yet," meant to replace prior top-tier models like Opus.
• Preview is being distributed across 40 leading organizations for broad testing in “defense security work areas.”
• Emphasized agentic coding, reasoning skills, and the promise for future agent-building applications.

Notable Quote

“It has really strong agentic coding and reasoning skills… It’s basically the most sophisticated and high performance model.”
— Jaden Schaefer [05:09]

4. Who Gets Access & What Happens Next

• [06:00] Access is restricted to top tech companies. They will share findings with the community, but public access is undecided and contingent on results.
• Anthropic is also in dialog with federal officials, although US government relations are complicated by ongoing legal and policy disputes.
• Previous leaks and unintentional exposures (as reported by Fortune) had foreshadowed the scale and potential of this release.
• The most current, most powerful model associated with this push is called Capybara, part of the new Mythos family.

Notable Quote

“They’re giving this to Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks. All of those people are going to share what they’ve learned…”
— Jaden Schaefer [06:13]

5. Risks, Global Landscape, and The Race Against Time

• [08:00] Anthropic fears the offensive possibilities: bad actors could exploit Mythos-level capabilities if released carelessly.
• However, holding it back indefinitely isn’t feasible: “someone in China is going to make an open source version of this and release it either way.” The best path is to fix vulnerabilities as fast as possible.

Notable Quote

“If Anthropic was able to create it, other people inevitably are going to be able to create it eventually as well.”
— Jaden Schaefer [08:37]

6. Revenue, Growth, and Strategic Positioning

• [09:10] Anthropic’s revenue has skyrocketed: from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to over $30 billion in monthly run rate by early 2026.
• The company is doubling down on business and enterprise users—over 1,000 customers each spending over $1 million a year.
• This commercial success funds their security-focused initiatives, including offering $100 million in credits to partner companies for vulnerability fixes.

Notable Quote

“Their growth is absolutely astronomical. And I think where Anthropic really crushed it, OpenAI is kind of targeting the everyday user…Anthropic is targeting business users.”
— Jaden Schaefer [10:20]

7. The “Problem-Maker, Problem-Fixer” Paradox

• Anthropic’s own innovation has revealed massive vulnerabilities in the global software infrastructure.
• Their solution? Deploy the very tool that uncovered the issues to patch them—before releasing it more broadly.

Notable Quote

“It's like they basically made the problem…now you need to use our model to fix the problem that we basically made.”
— Jaden Schaefer [10:56]

Memorable Moments & Quotes

• Existential stakes:
  “...as soon as we release it to the public, security of basically all software is going to explode.” [03:48]
• Naming humor:
  “I don’t know where they get the names for these. It’s almost as bad as Bard, in my opinion, but whatever…” [06:46]
• Business focus:
  “I personally am spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month on it, loving every second of it, because I’m getting so much done.” [10:30]

Noteworthy Timestamps

• 01:30 – Introduction of Project Glasswing and Mythos
• 03:30 – Internal findings: thousands of critical zero-days uncovered
• 06:00 – Major partner organizations and government relations
• 08:00 – Anthropogenic risks: race against global open-sourcing
• 09:10 – Anthropic’s explosive revenue growth and business focus
• 10:56 – Using Mythos to fix the problems it exposed

Tone & Perspective

Jaden keeps the tone energetic, slightly irreverent, and enthusiastically technical—balancing urgency about the magnitude of the discovery with optimism about collective action and AI-driven solutions. He is candid about the business dynamics, competitive landscape, and risks of “doomerism,” but ultimately frames the story as a critical turning point for tech accountability, security, and progress.

Summary Takeaway

Project Glasswing and the Mythos model are poised to redefine cybersecurity and AI’s role in critical infrastructure. Anthropic’s move to pre-emptively secure software before public release highlights both the power and peril of frontier AI—underscored by unprecedented technical capabilities, explosive market growth, and a necessary collaboration between industry leaders to safeguard tomorrow’s digital world.