Autonomous AI vs Zero-Day Attacks: The New Cybersecurity Shift
For decades, finding a zero-day flaw followed a predictable script: a highly skilled human researcher spent weeks staring at source code, digging for edge cases, and manually stitching together an exploit. In April 2026, Anthropic flipped that script by announcing Claude Mythos. This frontier model didn’t just mark an incremental upgrade; it introduced autonomous, machine-speed vulnerability hunting.