In Brief: IBM and Red Hat deploy 20,000 developers to fix security vulnerabilities in open-source software following Anthropic’s Mythos project discovery.
IBM and Red Hat mobilize 20,000 engineers for the new Project Lightwell Service to address vulnerabilities in the open-source software supply chain. The initiative was triggered by research findings from Anthropic’s Mythos project, which uncovered gaps in widely-used open-source software.
IBM and Red Hat are establishing the new Project Lightwell Service with a team of 20,000 engineers. The initiative addresses securing the open-source software supply chain following Anthropic’s Mythos research, which identified significant vulnerabilities in widely-used open-source software.
The findings from Anthropic’s Mythos project have sparked a debate about how companies and the open-source community can better collaborate to systematically address security vulnerabilities. The project demonstrates that AI-based analysis methods can uncover vulnerabilities that conventional review methods miss.
Project Lightwell positions itself as a coordinated effort to patch identified vulnerabilities in critical open-source components while simultaneously improving vulnerability management processes across the broader open-source landscape.
Source: www.darkreading.com · Published July 2, 2026
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