Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water

Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The company announced it on Thursday as a long-term effort to support defenders.

The second part is OSS Scanner, a free service that scans open-source code with Anthropic’s strongest models. It sends the findings straight to maintainers, without a…