Cohesity gave Anthropic's Mythos model access to its code, eyes backups as agent fuel

At the 70th IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen said the company gave Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model unfettered access to its codebase to hunt for vulnerabilities. Cohesity protects about 200 exabytes of data for 12,000 customers and wants to turn backups into a data source for AI agents.

• Cohesity protects about 200 exabytes of data for 12,000 customers
• Claude Mythos Preview got unfettered access to Cohesity's codebase
• Cohesity joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing in June 2026
• The company wants backups to feed AI agents