Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing, its advanced AI cybersecurity initiative, to 150 organizations across more than 15 countries, extending access to critical infrastructure operators in sectors including telecommunications, power, water, healthcare, and hardware. Participating countries include Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Japan, South Korea, and others.
The program gives selected organizations access to Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s most advanced cybersecurity-focused AI model. Since launching in April, participating organizations have identified more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity software vulnerabilities, while AI-powered scans of open-source software uncovered over 23,000 potential vulnerabilities.
The latest expansion is particularly notable because it now includes communications operators and critical infrastructure providers whose systems support hundreds of millions of people globally. Anthropic estimates that a successful attack on some participating codebases could affect more than 100 million users.
For Africa, the announcement highlights a growing reality in the AI era: cybersecurity is becoming an infrastructure challenge as much as a technology challenge. The world’s leading AI companies are now deploying frontier AI models to protect telecom networks, software platforms, cloud infrastructure, and national digital systems. Yet no African country was named among the initial expansion markets.
The development also underscores a broader issue. As AI becomes central to cybersecurity, cloud operations, software development, and critical infrastructure management, countries without meaningful AI infrastructure risk becoming consumers rather than contributors. Africa already accounts for less than 1% of global data center capacity and an even smaller share of global AI compute. While the continent is rapidly digitizing, it remains largely absent from many of the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure and cybersecurity initiatives.
