Cato CTRL Threat Brief: AI, Zero-Days, and the US-China Cyber Arms Race

TL;DR Underlying the US–China AI race, there’s arguably a more sinister arms race—the race to identify zero-day threats. Frontier AI algorithms, such as Anthropic Mythos ( here ) and China’s Qihoo 360 ( here ), are compressing the zero-day discovery cycle. But how those discoveries are gathered and shared among cooperating entities is giving China significant defensive and offensive advantages. Executive Summary If your 2026 threat model still treats vulnerability discovery…

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