{"id":1010876,"date":"2026-05-29T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010876"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:36:24","slug":"ibm-invests-5-billion-to-protect-open-source-software-from-ai-threats-ceo-arvind-krishna-says-it-was-due-to-anthropics-mythos-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/ibm-invests-5-billion-to-protect-open-source-software-from-ai-threats-ceo-arvind-krishna-says-it-was-due-to-anthropics-mythos-that\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM invests $5 billion to protect open-source software from AI threats, CEO Arvind Krishna says it was due to Anthropic\u2019s Mythos that \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines (IBM) has announced a $5 billion cybersecurity initiative called Project Lightwell, aimed at protecting open-source software from highly advanced AI threats. The company has roped in its subsidiary Red Hat and the project is backed by a global force of more than 20,000 engineers. According to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, the catalyst for this enormous investment was the capability of Anthropic\u2019s powerful AI model, Mythos that found vulnerabilities in software, and worried banks and governments worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMythos was the critical triggering factor on this,\u201d Krishna revealed in an exclusive interview with CNBC, noting that advanced large language models are \u201cremarkably adept at finding vulnerabilities\u201d and exploiting security gaps in both proprietary and open-source code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines (IBM) has announced a $5 billion cybersecurity initiative called Project Lightwell, aimed at protecting open-source software from highly advanced AI threats. The company has roped in its subsidiary Red Hat and the project is backed by a global force of more than 20,000 engineers. According to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, the catalyst for this enormous investment was the capability of Anthropic\u2019s powerful AI model, Mythos that found vulnerabilities in software, and worried banks and governments worldwide. \u201cMythos was the critical triggering factor on this,\u201d Krishna revealed in an exclusive interview with CNBC, noting that advanced large language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010877,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010876\/revisions\/1010877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}