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An open-weight model just closed most of the gap on autonomous cyber offense - and that changes who can run it

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Irregular (an AI security research group) tested Kimi K3, an open-weight model, against CyScenarioBench, a benchmark built around autonomous cyber campaigns - adapting public exploit techniques to constrained environments, building custom tooling, diagnosing failed attempts, and validating each sta…

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  1. 2026-08-19 17:19 · r/artificial
    An open-weight model just closed most of the gap on autonomous cyber offense - and that changes who can run it

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