Carnegie Mellon team wins AI security battle royale

Last night, DARPA’s long-planned Cyber Grand Challenge came to a dramatic finish in a 10-hour battle royale at Defcon, pitting seven automated security systems against each other to see which could find, exploit, and patch software vulnerabilities most effectively. The CMU-based ForAllSecure team emerged as the winner, finishing the 95-round contest with a clear lead after pulling ahead in round 10.
True to predictions, keeping the systems running proved to be one of the most significant c