Generative AI’s promise to automatically detect and patch security flaws in code is nearly a reality — as seen during a governme

Generative AI’s promise to automatically detect and patch security flaws in code is nearly a reality — as seen during a government-backed competition at the DEF CON hacker conference over the weekend. Critical infrastructure organizations, including hospitals and water systems, are being bombarded with unsophisticated but debilitating cyberattacks. Automating simple cyber practices — like scanning and remediating bugs in code — can go a long way in squashing the deluge of incidents. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the finalists for its AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) at DEF CON on Sunday. The challenge awards prizes to cybersecurity teams that want to train large language models (LLMs) to detect and fix vulnerabilities in open-source code. Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI provided credits to participants to help offset the costs of using their AI models in the challenge. READ | XPOST Source: We The Media