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DARPA, ARPA-H award $14m to 7 AIxCC semifinalists, with a catch

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2024-08-15

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Brandon Vigliarolo

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DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) narrowed the field to seven semifinalists at DEF CON 32, awarding each $2M and inviting them to a finals that require open-sourcing their systems via the OpenSSF; competitors’ AI tools identified 22 vulnerabilities across challenges involving Jenkins, the Linux kernel, Nginx, SQLite3, and Apache Tika (15 patched) and found one real-world SQLite3 bug that was responsibly disclosed.

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