BT becomes the first UK company to confirm it has joined Anthropic\u2019s Project GlasswingThe project helps the world\u2019s critical infrastructure providers secure their systems with frontier AIBT announced the news at the UK Government\u2019s \u2018AI Adoption Summit\u2019, which aims to accelerate AI usage across the UK economy in a safe and positive wayMembership will help BT strengthen cyber security for its networks and the country, and enable greater protection against the latest AI threats for BT\u2019s customers<\/p>\n
BT has become the first UK company to confirm its membership of Anthropic\u2019s Project Glasswing \u2013 giving access to Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic\u2019s frontier AI model, and strengthening BT\u2019s protection against cyber security threats for its networks and customers.<\/p>\n
Project Glasswing brings together critical infrastructure providers to secure data and systems which underpin services that millions of people rely on. It allows trusted organisations to use Anthropic\u2019s safe AI systems to rapidly identify vulnerabilities \u2013 and help fix them before criminals can take advantage.<\/p>\n
BT\u2019s Chief Executive, Allison Kirkby, announced the news as she opened the UK Government\u2019s \u2018AI Adoption Summit\u2019 earlier today, which featured the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, DSIT Secretary Liz Kendall, Business Secretary Peter Kyle, Cabinet Secretary Antonia Romeo and Minister for AI and Online Safety Kanishka Narayan.<\/p>\n
Allison\u2019s speech outlined the critical role of connectivity in ensuring the UK can seize the growth potential of AI, stating that \u201cAI only works at scale when it is underpinned by future-ready networks that are secure, resilient, safe\u201d. She also emphasised BT\u2019s commitment \u201cto working with Government to support the further development and deployment of sovereign British AI capability, so that the UK can be an AI maker and not just a taker\u201d, and to acting as an \u201cenabler of responsible adoption and a responsible adopter ourselves\u201d in AI.<\/p>\n
BT\u2019s participation in Project Glasswing reflects its role in securing UK critical national infrastructure, and as one of the UK\u2019s leading providers of security managed services. BT now prevents four million cyber-attacks across its networks every day, underlining the scale of the threat and the importance of staying ahead of it.<\/p>\n
Jon James, Chief Executive Officer, BT Business said: \u201cAI is changing cyber security fast, and businesses need trusted partners who can help them stay one step ahead. By joining Project Glasswing, BT will strengthen its own cyber security capability to protect our networks, our customers and the wider UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
BT Business already provides AI-powered cybersecurity solutions to customers of all sizes, including new products for small businesses<\/a> \u2013 and recently announced a collaboration with Accenture<\/a> to develop advanced AI-powered cyber operations, responding to cyber threats at machine speed.<\/p>\n ‘;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BT becomes the first UK company to confirm it has joined Anthropic\u2019s Project GlasswingThe project helps the world\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,53,37517,309,5977],"class_list":["post-66509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-bt-plc","tag-business","tag-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}