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What happened
For the first time ever, Google confirmed that an AI system created a brand new hacking weapon entirely on its own — and that weapon was actually used to attack real targets. No human wrote the attack. The AI figured it out by itself.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
Until now, hackers needed serious human expertise to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software. If AI can now do that automatically, cyberattacks could become faster, cheaper, and far more frequent. Every bank, hospital, and government system is potentially more at risk.
Takeaway
AI just became a weapon that builds its own ammunition. The arms race in cybersecurity just got a whole lot more complicated.
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