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Autonomous zero-day discovery is demonstrated live

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An Anthropic researcher demonstrated autonomous zero-day discovery on stage, prompting predictions of a major US cyberoffense boost that, unlike nuclear weapons, would be deployed daily, while a Linux kernel maintainer said AI-driven security reporting has jumped sharply across open source in a month.

Reporting date: 2026-03-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to March 29, 2026

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Anthropic

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Supersedes

One model finds a fifth of a year's Firefox high-severity bugs in two weeks

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Autonomous zero-day discovery is demonstrated live
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Reporting date: 2026-03-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-29-autonomous-zero-day-on-stage
Claim: An Anthropic researcher demonstrated autonomous zero-day discovery on stage, prompting predictions of a major US cyberoffense boost that, unlike nuclear weapons, would be deployed daily, while a Linux kernel maintainer said AI-driven security reporting has jumped sharply across open source in a month.
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- Welcome to March 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-29-2026
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