Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos

Google is expanding its CodeMender “AI agent for code security” by letting select external experts test its API, after debuting it last October and pitching it as a system that can both flag and fix vulnerabilities in code. The push signals a bigger cybersecurity race with Anthropic after its Claude Mythos Preview announcement drew intense attention from the AI industry and major institutions, including top banks and the Federal Reserve chair.

Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally - and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, "help secure the world's code bases" by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities. Anthropic's surprise Claude Mythos Preview announcement seemed to shock the AI world - and a ton of others, like top banks and the Federal Reserve chair . So, led by Anthropic's news, a … Read the full story at The Verge.