The American AI company, Anthropic, has recently announced that its newest model, Claude Mythos , surpasses all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. It claims that the model has uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities in “every major operating system and web browser” and “the fallout — for economies, public safety, and national security — could be severe”. Unlike typical AI launches, the company has restricted public access to Mythos, choosing instead to ship it under a defence cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing, which constitutes a consortium of major US technology companies and partners. Frontier AI labs have consistently leveraged fear as marketing, yet the underlying capability shift is genuine, and the short-term disruption is unavoidable. India’s task is neither to dismiss the alarm nor to buy into the hype, but to build cybersecurity resilience at every layer — cyber hygiene, organisational tooling, and legal reform alike.…