Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to hunt software vulnerabilities with Claude Mythos 5

Kraken’s parent company, Payward Inc., has joined a growing roster of major firms using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 AI model to find and fix software vulnerabilities before hackers do. The announcement, confirmed on August 17, places one of crypto’s largest exchanges inside an invite-only cybersecurity initiative that has already flagged over 10,000 high or critical-severity flaws across participating organizations. The program is called Project Glasswing, and it essentially gives vetted partners access to a version of Claude Mythos 5 with certain safety guardrails loosened specifically for security research. What Project Glasswing actually does Project Glasswing launched on April 7, 2026, as Anthropic’s structured approach to putting advanced AI in the hands of cybersecurity professionals. The concept is straightforward: let trusted organizations use Claude Mythos 5 to scan codebases, identify vulnerabilities, and report findings to the software maintainers responsible for patching them. The initiative expanded significantly on June 2, when nearly 150 additional organizations were brought into the fold. The partner list reportedly includes heavyweights like AWS, Apple, and cyberse...