Anthropic Unveils Cyber Mission to Deploy AI Defenses for Critical Infrastructure and Open Source
Anthropic launched its Cyber Mission on October 8, 2026, introducing two major initiatives: the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP) and OSS Scanner. CIDP provides frontier AI models and engineers to partners like Accenture and CrowdStrike to secure power grids and water systems. OSS Scanner offers free, automated vulnerability scans for open-source projects using Claude models, aiming to accelerate patching without human triage. The move follows lessons from Project Glasswing, acknowledging that while AI finds bugs quickly, verifying and fixing them remains a bottleneck for defenders.