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The third chapter in a developing story about agentic AI, cybersecurity, and digital trust Imagine waking up to discover that the locks protecting millions of digital doors may not be as secure as we believed. Some doors lead to ordinary websites. Others lead to government services, customer records, business platforms, and financial information. That is the uncomfortable picture emerging from several cybersecurity developments this week. The internet has not collapsed, and there is no reason for everyone to abandon it. But the events of October 2026 deserve our attention for a much more important reason: artificial intelligence is changing the speed at which weaknesses in our digital world can be discovered, exploited, and repaired. From an early warning to a real-world test For me, this story did not begin with this week's security alerts. In June 2025, I published “From Chatbots to Cyber-Worms: Why the Age of Agentic AI Demands Radical Rethinking of ...

In January 2025, I published an article titled Generative AI: A Tool, Not a Shameful Shortcut . My argument was straightforward: using generative AI to help articulate an idea should not automatically diminish the value of that idea. Writers have always worked with tools, editors, researchers, dictionaries, search engines, spell-checkers, designers and collaborators. Generative AI was becoming another member of that long list albeit a remarkably powerful one. A year and a half later, that argument is being tested in a way I did not fully anticipate. AI-generated content is beginning to acquire something resembling a digital fingerprint. Anthropic has introduced machine-readable marking for supported Claude-generated content as part of its response to the European Union’s new AI transparency requirements. New supported Claude models can embed an imperceptible watermark in generated text, while supported image and file outputs can carry digitally signed provenance ...

Almost a year ago, I published an article in my newsletter VerbionPulse : 👉 “ From Chatbots to Cyber-Worms: Why the Age of Agentic AI Demands Radical Rethinking of Digital Security ” At the time, the concern was emerging—but still theoretical: AI systems executing actions autonomously Prompt injection evolving into systemic risk The possibility of self-propagating AI behaviors It felt like we were approaching something significant. Today, with Anthropic’s announcement of Project Glasswing , that “something” has clearly arrived. What Glasswing Changes At the center of this initiative is Claude Mythos Preview —a model that has already: Identified thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities , including in major operating systems and browsers ( Anthropic ) Demonstrated the ability to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities autonomously ( Red Anthropic ) Forced its creators to restrict access , rather than release it publicly, due to potential risk...