AI Cybersecurity's $6B Arms Race: Google, OpenAI, and CrowdStrike Battle to Automate Vulnerability Hunting

Google and CrowdStrike both dropped major AI cybersecurity announcements within 24 hours — signaling that the race to automate vulnerability detection and patching has moved from lab demos to production deals. Google unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, scoring 86.2% on the CyberGym benchmark and achieving over 70% success rate in internal tests for discovering and patching flaws at scale. Meanwhile, CrowdStrike announced it's embedding OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber into its...