CrowdStrike
Falcon endpoint-security firm behind 2024's global IT outage; also a Project Glasswing Mythos AI partner.
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Why did Anthropic give CrowdStrike access to its most powerful AI model?
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AI: Jobs, Power & MoneyBackground
CrowdStrike is one of twelve organisations selected by Anthropic for Project Glasswing, the controlled-access programme through which Claude Mythos Preview was released on 8 April 2026. Partners received $100 million in model usage credits and exclusive access to a system that scored 83.1% on the CyberGym vulnerability reproduction benchmark.
CrowdStrike is a leading US cybersecurity firm best known for its Falcon endpoint protection platform, which uses AI and behavioural analysis to detect and respond to threats across cloud, endpoint, and identity environments. The company gained global recognition , and notoriety , in July 2024 when a faulty Falcon sensor update caused an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices to crash, triggering one of the largest IT outages in history.
CrowdStrike's inclusion in Glasswing reflects both its technical credibility in AI-assisted threat detection and the high-stakes Nature of giving offensive-grade AI to a firm that already operates deep inside enterprise security stacks worldwide. Critics noted that access to Mythos by a firm with CrowdStrike's reach amplifies both the defensive potential and the systemic risk if the model or its access is misused.