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Open Source, After Mythos

On Thursday, Anthropic launched Claude Mythos, a model capable of discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, alongside Project Glasswing, a gated initiative to equip defenders with those capabilities first.
As AI becomes foundational to institutions and markets, IBM Software Senior Vice President Rob Thomas argues the bar for control shifts; at infrastructure scale, openness becomes practical necessity for security.
Broad access enables researchers, startups, and institutions to influence technology evolution, Thomas argues, whereas narrow access limits perspectives. Critical technologies are safer when more people can inspect and improve them through open scrutiny.
Open systems drive competition up the stack rather than commoditizing innovation, Thomas asserts; value shifts toward domain expertise, orchestration, and reliability as open foundations expand participation.
Drawing on open source software's enduring lesson, Thomas emphasizes that serious governance and active maintenance are essential as AI enters its infrastructure phase. The core question becomes how organizations secure systems and create value.

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