Exclusive: Anthropic's plan to protect critical infrastructure

AxiosOctober 8, 2026en

Anthropic is launching a new cybersecurity initiative designed to bring its most powerful AI models and engineers to companies protecting power grids, water utilities and other critical infrastructure, the company first shared with Axios. Why it matters: Critical infrastructure operators are struggling to secure aging, complex systems as AI threatens to make cyberattacks faster and cheaper to execute. Driving the news: Under its new Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, Anthropic will provide its frontier AI models, on-site engineers and threat research to companies already responsible for securing critical infrastructure systems. Participating companies will use these resources to identi

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