News · curated 29 Jul 2026

Microsoft Struggling With Hundreds of AI-Discovered Security Bugs

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29 Jul 2026propublica.org

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Why it matters

Frontier AI models capable of finding software vulnerabilities faster than vendors can patch them signal a shifting cyber-offense/defense balance, where the same capability handed to defenders will soon be available to adversaries for espionage and sabotage.

ProPublica reports that Microsoft is struggling to patch hundreds of security vulnerabilities discovered by Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model under Project Glasswing, which found 90 'critical' and 141 'important' bugs in SharePoint in April alone. Internal recordings show engineers in a 'mad dash' to close flaws before the model's capabilities become available to adversaries like China, with Microsoft triaging critical and important bugs first.