The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team

Aug 27, 2026 - 07:45
The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team

Bring an AI agent to a hacking competition and you would expect to find it propping up the teams who were struggling. In the 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, agents showed up in 17 of the Top 25 finishers. The people who least needed help were the ones who brought it. The people who might have used a hand mostly did not, and they did not close the gap. “Our data shows that AI is … More

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