The Dark Forest Needs an Immune System

Anthropic just dropped Project Glasswing — a big collaborative cybersecurity initiative with a shiny new model called Claude Mythos Preview that can find zero-day vulnerabilities at scale. Twelve major tech companies involved. $100M in credits. Found a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD. Impressive stuff. But let's be real about what's happening here. Anthropic trained a model so capable at breaking into systems that they decided it was too dangerous to release publicly. So they wrapped the release in a collaborative security initiative. The security work is genuinely valuable. But it's also a smart way to keep control of something they know is too powerful to let loose. The part that actually matters, though, is who benefits. Glasswing is for the big players. The companies with security teams, budgets, and the kind of infrastructure that gets invited to sit at the table with AWS, Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks. What about the rest of us? The startups, the small SaaS shops, the indie devel