Cyb3rius
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Can an AI model now find and exploit vulnerabilities better than humans?Possibly — Google says its new Gemini 4 Carbon model leads benchmarks for finding, exploiting, and patching software flaws, a combination that cuts both ways for defenders.What happened: On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, claiming state-of-the-art gains in cybersecurity and long-horizon agentic tasks. The model is positioned as strong across coding and agentic work, and Google says it outperforms rivals at locating vulnerabilities, writing working exploits, and generating patches. The announcement frames offensive and defensive capability as one package rather than separate products.Key numbers: Three benchmarked tasks in one model: vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching.One model release, announced Wednesday, branded as Google's frontier tier.Zero public CVE-specific exploit results disclosed alongside the benchmark claims.Why it matters: If exploitation capability ships in the same model as patching, attackers and defenders gain the same speedup — and defenders only win if they patch faster than adversaries weaponize.Bottom line: AI hasn't changed the security equation; it's just made both sides of it run at machine speed.
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