Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents
THE SO WHAT
If a months-old shop can claim to breach a frontier lab in under 12 hours with AI agents, assume attacker capability is compounding alongside defender tools. Treat your own AI stack—models, data, and orchestration code—as high-value targets and harden them like core production infra, not sidecar experiments.
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