DARPA, health officials emphasize magnitude of AI Cyber Challenge to shift dynamics on patching vulnerabilities

By Sara Friedman / August 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Officials from the two research agencies revealed the results of the AI Cyber Challenge at the 2025 Def Con in Las Vegas, highlighting significant achievements of the seven teams who were finalists in the competition to use artificial intelligence to find vulnerabilities and patch source code. “A cyber reasoning system (CRS) designed by Team Atlanta is the winner of the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year, first-of-its-kind competition in collaboration with the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)...

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