SITUATION EXPLAINED: As AI-found bugs set off a wave of cyberattacks, Anthropic’s deputy security chief says "we tried to warn the world." • Anthropic's deputy CISO Jason Clinton says things will get "a lot worse before they get better," and urged security leaders to ask their boards for help with the basics, not AI • This week, AI-found PHP flaws that could affect about 70% of websites sent government sites offline around the world • Cloudflare’s CEO said exploit attempts jumped from thousands to millions within hours of the disclosure • Clinton was replying to a critic who said AI labs "created this monster" and now want help cleaning it up • Anthropic's view is that strong cyber models were coming anyway, so it built them first to patch critical software before attackers could • Its Project Glasswing gives Claude Mythos Preview to partners like Apple, Google, and Microsoft to find and fix flaws @theojaffee: "If you were Anthropic, what would you do differently? Would you just, like, not build cyber-capable models and then wait for some lab in China to do it and hack everyone in the country?"

SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.