This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, April 8th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know.

We give you some important context, and we try to understand ourselves.

And hopefully that helps you.

Today, Anthropic gets the world's biggest competing tech companies to cooperate on security.

And why that shouldn't be as scary as it is.

We'll get to that.

I'm Tom Merritt.

And I'm Sarah Lane.

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Yeah, so thanks to R.W. Nash and Motang, both noted different aspects of this story on our subreddit. A lot of things happening in the subreddit, by the way. I just want to take a moment to say, like, you may have one of the top upvoted stories on there, and we very much appreciate it. If that story doesn't make it into the show, it's for different reasons. But keep at it, man.

The subreddit's really perking along these days.

All right, let's get to this one.

Anthropic announced Project Glasswing to, quote, secure the world's most critical software.

Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, the chipmaker, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, J.P. Morgan Chase, the bank,

the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto networks are all partners in this effort.

Those partners are also contributing together $4 million and $100 million in usage credits on

Anthropics systems to the project, because this project is not about securing their systems.

It will include their systems, of course, but it's about securing everything.

The announcement says, quote, no one organization

can solve these cybersecurity problems alone. Frontier AI developers, other software companies,

security researchers, open source maintainers, and governments across the world all have essential

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