METR: LLMs Markedly Accelerate Cyber Vulnerability Discovery

METR's analysis finds that cyber vulnerability discovery has sharply accelerated since early 2026, clearly driven by LLMs, even after adjusting for severity, while mathematical algorithm improvement shows no significant boost.

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