Chainguard CEO Commits $50M and 100 Engineers to Build Open-Source Trust Infrastructure Against Anthropic Mythos Zero-Day Threat

Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc announced a $50 million, 100-engineer commitment to build 'new trust infrastructure for open-source consumption' in direct response to Anthropic Mythos, calling the AI zero-day scanner 'real' rather than marketing hype. Lorenc's proposed 'hard fork' would establish a unified disclosure pipeline and trusted fork registry — addressing the mismatch between Mythos-speed vulnerability discovery and the patching capacity of volunteer open-source maintainers. The initiative complements but is distinct from IBM/Red Hat's Project Lightwell, focusing specifically on hardening open-source at the consumption and distribution layer rather than enterprise infrastructure.