New Delhi, April 24 -- Over the past decade, India's digital economy has increasingly relied on open-source software to power its core digital infrastructure and governance systems. From banking to government platforms, the code behind payments and public services is shared, modular and visible.

While this approach delivers scale, lower costs and reduced vendor lock-in, new AI systems developed by Anthropic, OpenAI and others are exposing its soft underbelly. Old unpatched gaps are showing up in widely used open-source software.

Anthropic's Mythos, for instance, reportedly spotted a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, an open-source operating system, that could be exploited to crash machines remotely. It also showed how seemingly minor bugs co...