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A sweeping look at how AI is already shaping warfare—from Project Maven’s drone-surveillance analytics and Google’s involvement to Anthropic’s red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous targeting—arguing that while fully autonomous weapons aren’t here yet, policy, contracts, and tech developments are compressing kill chains and moving decision-making closer to machines, with little international consensus on definitions or bans.
Anthropic limited Mythos to about 50 vetted groups, arguing the model is too dangerous for public release. The move signals a broader shift toward restricted, high-safety AI and could influence science openness and governance as rival labs follow with guarded cyber-focused models; experts warn gatekeeping may widen access gaps while dual-use risks prompt tighter controls.
Anthropic plans to release Mythos-class AI models to the public with expanded access including governments, while guardrails are being established and certain safety tools remain restricted for now.
Business Insider frames May 20, 2026 as AI’s defining pivot, likening it to COVID’s 2020 moment: Nvidia reports a record $81.6 billion quarter, Anthropic projects $10.9 billion in the next quarter, OpenAI plans an IPO after a breakthrough, SpaceX files to go public signaling a broad AI push, and Meta cuts thousands of jobs to double down on AI—all pointing to a massive, uncertain reordering of the tech economy driven by AI and interdependence among the giants.
The Vatican has long engaged with Silicon Valley on AI ethics, culminating in Pope Leo XIV’s forthcoming encyclical on artificial intelligence that will be unveiled with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. The Vatican’s ‘Minerva Dialogues’ and the Center on Digital Culture laid groundwork for ongoing discussions with Anthropic and other faith leaders about embedding ethical perspectives into AI, including ideas like Claude’s constitution and even a forgiveness-like mechanism for AI. While the move signals a global, faith-informed approach to AI governance, critics warn of “ethics washing” and concerns over regulatory influence and military use; Anthropic itself faces scrutiny over defense partnerships and a major copyright settlement. The overall goal is to shape the public debate and policy around AI ethics, leveraging Vatican credibility to influence Silicon Valley and policymakers alike.
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, using Claude Mythos Preview, has identified more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities since launch, including 6,202 affecting over 1,000 open-source projects; 1,726 confirmed true positives and 1,094 high/critical. The effort has yielded 97 upstream patches and 88 advisories, with examples like WolfSSL CVE-2026-5194 (CVSS 9.1). The work underscores the gap between discovery and remediation, while defenders credit the tool for preventing fraud (a partner bank blocked a $1.5M wire transfer). Anthropic also launched a Cyber Verification Program for legitimate testing; public, unrestricted access to Mythos-like models remains unlikely amid safeguards. The episode amplifies calls to shorten patch cycles and harden defenses across software supply chains.
Anthropic revealed that Glasswing, powered by Claude Mythos Preview, autonomously identified over 10,000 high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across critical software in its first month, with more than 50 tech partners including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Cloudflare. Cloudflare alone found about 2,000 bugs (400 high/critical); Mozilla patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities, while many disclosures have not been patched upstream, highlighting a severe patch-delivery bottleneck. The findings underscore the need for stronger defenses and faster triage, as Mythos-class models remain restricted to defenders, with Claude Security in public enterprise beta and industry groups rolling out supporting tools to cope with the AI-driven vulnerability deluge.
SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are lining up blockbuster flotations that could redefine the AI boom, with SpaceX targeting about $75bn in proceeds at a roughly $1.75tn valuation and OpenAI and Anthropic pursuing multi-hundred‑billion valuations as they burn cash while scaling. Backers say enormous pools of capital are ready to absorb large listings, but investors may push back against steep losses and uncertain paths to profitability as the trio’s private-growth dynamics meet public-market scrutiny.
The Verge reports that SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Anthropic will pay about $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for access to SpaceX’s Colossus I and II AI training centers, about $15 billion annually and potentially double SpaceX’s 2025 revenue. The deal includes a 90-day termination clause and reduced fees during ramp-up, underscoring the AI compute crunch and SpaceX’s heavy investment in AI, with Musk signaling similar compute deals could be offered to others.
OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter, led by Codex and enterprise ChatGPT sales, roughly $1 billion more than rival Anthropic; growth also came from selling to businesses and testing ads on ChatGPT, though Anthropic’s momentum could narrow the gap later this year.
Prediction-market traders expect SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic to debut on Nasdaq with first-day valuations north of $1 trillion—potentially surpassing Berkshire Hathaway. SpaceX is valued around $1.25 trillion and could close day one above $2.2 trillion; OpenAI is valued about $852 billion with a 65% chance to end above $1.4 trillion; Anthropic could exceed $1.8 trillion on day one, with talks of a new round at roughly $900 billion. OpenAI reportedly plans a confidential IPO this year (and Kalshi puts a 92% chance of an IPO in 2026, Anthropic 69%). Despite these firms not yet profitable, analysts say the US market (~$70 trillion) could absorb multiple mega-IPOs, though demand remains a risk.
OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO in the coming weeks, moving up from a previously targeted late-2026 timeline as CEO Sam Altman aims to beat rival Anthropic to the public markets.
SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing shows Anthropic will pay about $1.25 billion per month (roughly $15 billion a year) to access SpaceX’s Colossus data-center GPUs through 2029, highlighting how critical compute access is for AI development. SpaceX intends to monetize its infrastructure while continuing its own xAI work, as the IPO aims to raise around $75 billion at a roughly $1.75 trillion valuation. The filing also covers SpaceX’s revenue and losses and governance provisions that grant Elon Musk outsized control.
Prediction-market traders now rate OpenAI as the likely first AI company to IPO, about 83% odds after reports it may confidentially file soon, beating Anthropic. Investors weigh OpenAI’s spending and leadership questions against Anthropic’s rapid enterprise growth and updates to Claude Mythos, with a fast debut potentially setting valuations and shifting sentiment.
Bristol Myers Squibb announced a strategic agreement with Anthropic to deploy Claude across its research, development, manufacturing, commercial and corporate functions, empowering more than 30,000 employees with agentic AI. The rollout centers on Claude Code for engineering and will embed AI agents into priority workflows to accelerate target identification, trial documentation and regulatory submissions, and to speed manufacturing decisions, all while maintaining enterprise governance and secure integrations. This builds on BMS’s multi-year AI investments and a multi-vendor strategy to speed medicine discovery and delivery.