Anthropic's AI Finds Bugs. IBM Bets $5B It Can Fix Them.
Summary
IBM and Red Hat are investing significant resources (20,000 engineers) into Project Lightwell, a new service aimed at fixing bugs in open-source software (publicly available code that anyone can use and modify). This initiative was sparked by findings from Anthropic's Mythos research, which demonstrated that AI can discover security vulnerabilities (weaknesses that attackers could exploit) in open-source code, raising concerns about how to better protect the supply chain (all the software components and processes used to build applications).
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Original source: https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/anthropic-s-ai-finds-bugs-ibm-bets-5b-it-can-fix-them-
First tracked: July 2, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%