Anthropic's AI Finds Bugs. IBM Bets $5B It Can Fix Them.

IBM and Red Hat are committing five billion dollars and 20,000 engineers to Project Lightwell, a new service that patches open-source software vulnerabilities for enterprise customers who can't risk disrupting production systems. The move comes after Anthropic's AI-powered Mythos model discovered vulnerabilities at an unprecedented rate through Project Glasswing, finding over 1,500 bugs across hundreds of projects but with only 6 percent patched so far, as overwhelmed maintainers struggle to keep up with AI-speed discovery. IBM's service will backport fixes to specific software versions without requiring full upgrades, though the company has notably not confirmed whether its own watsonx AI platform plays any role in the initiative.