Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos
TL;DR
Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally - and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, "help secure the world's code bases" by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities.
Nauti's Take
A promising race: Google is opening CodeMender more widely and going head-to-head with Anthropic's Mythos in security. For devs and security teams that is a real opportunity — competition forces faster fixes, better detection and saner pricing.
The challenge stays: AI agents that auto-patch code need very tight guardrails. A wrong fix in a production banking stack is not a small problem.
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