IBM’s $5 billion bet on AI cybersecurity project, CEO says Mythos was the ‘triggering factor’

A day after Google made headlines with its Threat Defense AI cybersecurity tool, IBM stepped into the global digital infrastructure space with a massive investment of $5 billion cybersecurity initiative. Called the ‘Project Lightwell’, the project is essentially a push to secure global digital infrastructure against rapidly escalating threats from AI.

Project Lightwell is a massive undertaking designed to safeguard open-source software from highly advanced, AI-driven cyber threats capable of automated vulnerability exploitation.