US Big Tech companies and officials have compared advanced AI models to digital nukes, hoping to erect regulatory barriers to competition from Chinese and Indian companies — who are mostly working with and releasing open-weights (and in many cases, fully open source) AI models (File photo: Reuters/Dado Ruvic) 5 min read Apr 30, 2026 07:11 PM IST First published on: Apr 30, 2026 at 07:11 PM IST “India seeks fair access to Anthropic’s Mythos for critical infrastructure security” was a headline yesterday. The “Mythos” being referred to is Anthropic’s upcoming proprietary large language model (LLM), which they have deemed too dangerous to release because it apparently excels at discovering security vulnerabilities in software. Under Project Glasswing, Anthropic has provided exclusive access to the US government and a select set of American software companies and projects in order to uncover and patch vulnerabilities. The reaction in New Delhi has been swift, but deeply misguided.…