SHIFTHEADS: The AI Upgrade You Lost Without Warning

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jun 17, 2026 · 9m

Something changed in your Claude window this week and technology analyst Carmi Levy is here to tell you it was not an accident. It was a decision, made by a government that is not yours, about a tool you depend on.

The AI you were using had already been dialed back before it reached you. The full-strength version was quietly restricted to a handful of trusted governments and researchers under something called Project Glasswing because it was capable of breaking through existing cybersecurity protections. What you had was the safer version. Then the US government took that too. Carmi Levy lays…