New Delhi, Sept. 9 -- Frontier AI companies are racing for defences against Agentic AI misuse, inviting suspicion of a new 'create-a-gap-and-fill-it' business model mis- inspired by Keynes.

Within months of each other, OpenAI and Anthropic released autonomous models of artificial intelligence (AI) capable of cyber-gap discovery and exploitation. Then they launched cybersecurity schemes, offering newly exposed infrastructure operators subsidized access to patch-up tech.

Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing in April alongside Claude Mythos Preview, aimed at keeping critical-infra software secure. It thus gave partners like AWS, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia a head-start in fortifying themselves. Anthropic also committed up to $100 million i...