Is digital India ready for Anthropic's Mythos era?

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves, so do the anxieties around it.

- Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi

The discourse on AI ethics, slops and data centres, and AI's implications on the labour market, warfare and national security are intensifying. Following years of AI advancements, the dynamics have finally changed in 2026, potentially shifting AI from an abstract concept to a force affecting the fundamental infrastructure of institutions.

The challenge is to withstand the cybersecurity risks enabled by AI. The conversation around AI safety can no longer be deemed mythological. Claude Mythos, one of the frontier models — not even built with security in mind, as per Anthropic — has demonstrated that it has surpassed the capabilities of any prior model and could discover vulnerabilities on its own. Recognising the risks this release could pose, they initially chose to delay it and instead recently released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class public model with stronger safeguards that has surpassed nearly all other models across all tested AI capability benchmarks. Claude Mythos 5 has been deployed by Anthropic through its "Project Glasswing" initiative, in collaboration with the US government and major tech companies and has extended access to 40 other organisations worldwide to protect critical software.