Research shows that Chinese AI can reliably detect software vulnerabilities - and it is cost efficient. Kimi K2.5, an open-weight model was deployed in an agentic framework against Chrome and produced 10 previously unknown zero-days, including two critical sandbox-escape CVEs. The researchers noted it was cheaper to run than Claude Opus 4.6 at that scale. The most important word in the paper isn't "zero-day" -- it's "cheaper"? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.20801

A 4-star admiral told Congress the U.S. military runs a Bitcoin node to “secure networks” and endorsed Bitcoin as a “power projection” capability. The cryptographic primitives he cited like proof or work aren’t exactly earth shuttering in 2026. https://gooden.house.gov/2026/4/gooden-reveals-historic-u-s-military-use-of-bitcoin-node

Unauthorized users gained access to Claude Mythos Preview, a model with powerful cybersecurity capabilities Anthropic deliberately kept behind a restricted pilot program. They used the access to the most powerful cybrsecurity AI model to... build websites. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/anthropic-s-mythos-model-is-being-accessed-by-unauthorized-users

Experience suggests that an increase of savagery in warfare is apt to follow new developments - technical or political - which unsettle the existing order. The advent of AI-driven and lethal autonomous weapons systems may be no exception.

$2,283 in tokens and ~20 hours of work to produce one a Chrome exploit chain is cheap when compared to the weeks of focused human effort it would normally take. https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/i-let-claude-opus-to-write-me-a-chrome-exploit

According to UK government, frontier AI model cyberattack capabilities are doubling every 4 months, compared to every 8 months previously. However, despiite what the UK government says "steps organisations should take to protect against AI-driven cyber threats" are NOT the same cyber hygiene measures recommended for traditional cyber threats https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-cyber-threats-open-letter-to-business-leaders/ai-cyber-threats-open-letter-to-business-leaders-html

The marginal electricity cost per broken secp256k1 cryptographic key is about $59 for a 23-minute attack (500000×0.38≈191667 qubit-hours=7986=7986 qubit-days). This means that for bitcoin it could be 62 keys/day. Assuming that a quantum computer exists (which it doesn't, today). https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14344

AI has significantly increased the likelihood of attackers discovering new vulnerabilities, creating new exploits, and using them in complex automated attacks at scale. AI increases the speed to develop patches, and reduces defects in new software, the burden on defenders, by comparison, increases due to the inherent limitations of patching. The attackers gain asymmetric benefits. https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/mythosready.pdf