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 \u201cAI agent for code security\u201d it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally \u2014 and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, \u201chelp secure the world\u2019s code bases\u201d by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n
Anthropic\u2019s surprise Claude Mythos Preview announcement seemed to shock the AI world \u2014 and a ton of others, like top banks and the Federal Reserve chair<\/a>. So, led by Anthropic\u2019s news, a lot of companies have been following suit by offering their own versions of a powerful AI model designed to point out unknown security gaps in high-stakes systems. Anthropic made headlines for Mythos Preview being supposedly too powerful to release publicly, and it helped the company get back in the US government\u2019s good graces<\/a> after its supply chain risk designation and ensuing lawsuit. It also stands to make the company a lot of money if things go well with its early-access enterprise users and government agencies. So as the pressure builds for other companies to turn a profit ahead of potential IPOs, like OpenAI \u2014 or to stay in the lead of the ever-intensifying AI race, like Google \u2014 AI labs are seeing cybersecurity as a potential key revenue driver.<\/p>\n OpenAI quickly followed suit with its own offering, and now, so has Google. Kavukcuoglu confirmed to The Verge in an interview that Google has already been in discussions with governments and enterprises about using CodeMender to audit their systems.<\/p>\n Google CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters during a Monday press briefing, \u201cWhat Mythos has done, and credit to them, is to show that there is a value for the largest-sized model in these kinds of security use cases. But I think it\u2019s something we are capable of doing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I\/O, the company announced that it was inviting select…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,184,181,507,168,275904,172,74],"class_list":["post-653465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-google","tag-google-i-o-2026","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}