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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 18, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Splits Its Cyber Verification Program Into Three Tiers, With the Narrowest Run With the US Government
Vetted defenders get Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Mythos 5.1 with fewer blocking classifiers, and Anthropic says partners verified at least 129,000 vulnerabilities between April and July.
Anthropic on October 6 launched an expanded Cyber Verification Program that gives qualifying security professionals advanced cyber capabilities with fewer blocking classifiers. The program merges Project Glasswing, which gave organizations…
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Frontier labs will keep writing binding acceptable-use rules on policing, surveillance, tracking and autonomous hardware before legislators act. Their usage policies become a private regulatory layer that government and defense customers must negotiate around, and that layer is a recurring point of friction in public-sector procurement.
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