Morning Edition · Friday, June 26, 2026
A New Benchmark Tests Whether AI Agents Can Actually Secure Smart Contracts
CyberChainBench evaluates language-model agents on detecting, exploiting, and patching real on-chain vulnerabilities drawn from hundreds of past exploits.
A new benchmark called CyberChainBench evaluates language-model agents on smart-contract security across three linked tasks: detecting vulnerabilities, generating working exploits, and writing patches. The authors built it from 541 real-wor…
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AI Offensive Cyber Capability and State Doctrine
States and intelligence agencies increasingly treat frontier AI as an offensive cyber instrument, formalizing doctrine and operational use as models demonstrate autonomous intrusion capability faster than controls can keep up; expect more disclosed incidents and national-security policy responses.
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